"In all the celebration of mythic Southern food...I miss the sharecropper who scrapped by on salt pork, cornmeal, and molasses. I miss the slave who brought the okra and rice from West African shores. I miss the hardscrabble Southerners who lived on such cuisine before motherly matrons appropriated it as their own." For images that inspire this theme, take a look at the gallery of award winning southern artist D. Pierce Giltner and let the images slowly roll through http://www.dpiercegiltner.com/gallery/gallery.html
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