January 2012
78 posts
somuchsass:
This gif has been making the rounds in the office this morning, and I could not think of a better way to start my Wednesday.
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Watchrachelsuzanna:
I haven’t had time to watch Drew Peterson: UNTOUCHABLE, but this is enough, right?
“Mother said you could always tell a lady by her hands.”
– Scott Smallwood
A Southern Fried Education | Bon Appetit →
In the year that I’ve been here, I’ve come to understand that food, more than prayer, politics, or politeness, is the language of getting along. It is the great equalizer, the common ground in a region still working to repair the scars left from slavery and the Jim Crow era.
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Granted, there’s something to be said for a recipe that has been perfected over...
Sherman's Southern Sympathies | NYTimes.com →
Despite Sherman’s strong affinities for the white aristocratic South, there were parts of Southern life that he seemed to dislike, and even despise. He enjoyed, for example, socializing in the 1840s with the better people of Charleston, but he at least once called their scions “worthless sons of broken down, proud Carolina families.” After the war, as the South struggled to rise above the...
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Stop Bashing Paula Deen | Chow.com →
This article mirrors my thoughts on the Paula Deen & butter issue and the (newer) Paula Deen & diabetes issue, the former of which I wrote about previously (in a decidedly less eloquent fashion) here. I think there are some very obvious and shameful class and gender bias issues in the constant berating of Deen and her methods, and so I suppose it is my station as a woman from the rural...
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