Deep Quote by Sandra Brown

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

A southerner would fry a salad if he could figure out how.

— Joe Thompson

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

I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my…

— Paula Deen

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

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

Not infrequently, Southern food now unlocks the rusty gates of race and class, age and sex. On such occasions, a place at the table…

— John Egerton

I'm from North Carolina, so I am really picky about my fried chicken.

— Mary Helen Bowers

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

— Ben Wallace

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

There are things I like about fancy Southern food and there are things I really love from just down-home Southern cooking. So mixing those…

— Ricky Stenhouse Jr

Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years.…

— Paula Deen