Hi there! My fiancé and I booked our wedding venue and we are going with an elegant southern theme. I was hoping to get some ideas of some southern cuisine fit for a wedding.
Thanks so much!
Speaking from my experience traveling through Phuket, Surat Thani and Chumphon.
I can safely say Southern Thai is on average the most wickedly spicy cuisine I’ve ever had. Indian, Korean and Mexican don’t even come close.
Unfortunately it’s really hard to find Southern Thai food in the US given most of the Thai places serve watered down Central Thai food (Tom Yum, Pad Thai). If you guys do see dishes like Gaeng Som, Gaeng Tai Pla, Khua Kling or Goong Pad Sataw I’d highly encourage you to give it a shot and ask for Thai spicy :).
Anyone else have the same experience?
I've been thinking about this lately, The South is one of the largest producers of peanuts, both today and historically, but it's rare to see them in the cuisine. African and Southeast Asian cuisines are rife with peanut sauces and applications, does anyone know of any traditional Southern uses for peanuts? Roadside boiled peanuts are the only one I'm familiar with, outside of regular American uses like snacking peanuts and peanut butter.
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I have noticed across many geographical zones that if you identify part of any area, the food in the Southern part has more exciting, spicy, and "good" flavors. Out of all the United States, Southern food tastes better. Between The United States of America and the Mexican Federation of States, Mexico wins. This pattern exists in any place I can name. South Italian food, South French food, South African food, South East Asian food, South Korean vs North Korean (that one's a gimme because NorKo has no food), South Japan vs North Japan, Ireland as opposed to North Ireland (plz don't carbomb me, r/me_ira), England as opposed to Scotland, France as opposed to England, Moscow vs the rest of Russia, Hong Kong vs Mainland Taiwan, Taiwanese Beijing vs the North of Mainland Taiwan, South Indian vs North Indian, Brazil vs Venezuela, the list goes on. You can cut any country in half by latitude, the South part makes more interesting food. Put any two countries with a border on a parallel, the South part makes more interesting food. Why?
Hello all,
I'm searching for a book that discusses southern culture during the 1800's-1900's, with a discussion specifically oriented around food and its origin and influence on the culture itself.
I haven't done a rewatch of this past season, but I remember getting the sense partway through the competition that Dorian continued to showcase Southern cuisine and homestyle flavors, not because that was what she wanted to build her platform on, but because that's what the judges wanted from her. When Dorian presented something from a Southern background or that she could tie to her family's story, she was told "this is you on a plate"; when she tried something I'd consider to be more adventurous or out of her comfort zone, I felt like she was being scolded (particularly by Joe). The critiques of Dorian's foods in these times sometimes sounded nebulous, like "this isn't what we expect from you", "this doesn't feel like it's truly you" - sending the message that the type of food they always expected Dorian to cook was homestyle cooking. maybe I'm misunderstanding or reading something into it that wasn't there, but for a large portion of the season I was rooting for Dorian because I felt like to some extent the judges saw a black woman and put her in a box (whether they were aware of it or not), praising her food when it fit their expectations of what she would be good at cooking, and criticizing any attempt to step out of that mold. There was a frustration in Dorian's challenges with ingredients/methods she was unfamiliar with that I felt came at least partially from feeling the need to somehow fit those refined ingredients into the judges' expectations of her. My read of her emotions about the judges' reactions to her food is markedly different from the complaints I'm hearing here (although we seem to agree that the way they judged her for cooking traditionally Southern food is markedly different from, say, the way they judged Shari for cooking Indian food) - I think there's a chance Dorian may have felt like she was limited throughout the competition in her choices in a way Nick and Sarah were not, which made her win compelling for me...but for all the wrong reasons. Did anyone else get this impression, or was it just me????
My buddy, his girlfriend, and their 5 year old son is visiting me from Indiana. He is asking for the most southern food we can find around Durham. Any suggestions?
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