Culture Quote by Marcie Cohen Ferris

The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food reflects the…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think. I hear…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern food -…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

“The travels to discovery my heritage revealed to me that the South might not be a place so much as it is a series…

— Michael W. Twitty

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

— Fannie Flagg

The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table, we must…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples.

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks…

— Jenny Han

In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle, extreme hunger,…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

The working poor in the South are often blamed for their reliance on "traditional" Southern food, while in reality, most are eating the same…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

“The American South is an authentic American Culture. Maybe the last. The north is just a Casserole Culture – a tasteless vat of leftovers,…

— Tim Heaton

In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.

— Frank Thomas