Amount Quote by Paula Deen

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

For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have…

— Carla Hall

I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that…

— Della Reese

No self-respecting Southerner will eat something baked, broiled, grilled, stewed, poached, sauteed, or flambeed when it can be deep fried.

— Sandra Brown

Since I'm from the South, anything that's home cooked, I'm down for.

— Ben Wallace

I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.

— Rachel Keller

If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by your family…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from…

— Erin Andrews

I'm from Georgia and grew up eating Chick-fil-A. I'm obsessed with all forms of fried chicken, like chicken briskets and chicken sandwiches.

— Kelley O'Hara

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.

— Paula Deen

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern…

— Clarence Clemons

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