Eat Me Daily » Southern cuisine http://www.eatmedaily.com Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:31:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Oxford American 2010 Southern Food Issue, ADHD Edition http://www.eatmedaily.com/2010/03/oxford-american-2010-southern-food-issue-adhd-edition/ http://www.eatmedaily.com/2010/03/oxford-american-2010-southern-food-issue-adhd-edition/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:02:56 +0000 http://www.eatmedaily.com/?p=39427 OA68Cover.inddOxford American's Southern Food 2010 issue, guest edited by John T. Edge, is filled cover to cover with articles, essays and fiction detailing the many facets of Southern food. Mostly beautiful memories of dishes cooked lovingly by family and friends, the entire issue drives home the point that Southern food, perhaps more than any other regional American cuisine, is a cuisine built heavily on history, locality and memory. The best part? Anyone from the South will recognize places, people, basketball rivalries and flavors from their own lives, which is almost as comforting as mac and cheese.

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Farm-to-table is one of those irritating culinary trends that is hard to really stay irritated by. Fundamentally, it's just so darn right: we should be eating seasonally and locally, we should be supporting sustainable agriculture and the preservation of heirloom vegetables. The most delicious food is the stuff that's been harvested (butchered, cultivated, fished) as close as possible to the kitchen that's cooking it.

It's a delicious irony, then, that the proprietors of Walland, Tennessee's Blackberry Farm is the family that founded the chain Ruby Tuesday's, where the salad bar is anchored by shredded cheddar, diced ham, and macaroni salad. Blackberry Farm is a mega-luxury inn located on a remote 4,200-acre property that was farm-to-table before the hyphenate even existed, built as it is around a working farm from which the inn's extraordinary kitchen sources the vast majority of its ingredients. The Blackberry Farm Cookbook: Four Seasons of Great Food and the Good Life (Amazon), by innkeeper (and Ruby Tuesday scion) Sam Beall, is about as far from Ruby Tuesday as you can get without coming around the other side.

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