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The Great South

The Great South. Where hospitality and good food abound. The Mason-Dixon Line. Division between northern and southern states (free and slave) during the Civil War and throughout the 1800’s. The exception was Delaware, a slave state that did not leave the Union.

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The Great South

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  1. The Great South Where hospitality and good food abound.

  2. The Mason-Dixon Line • Division between northern and southern states (free and slave) during the Civil War and throughout the 1800’s. The exception was Delaware, a slave state that did not leave the Union. • Delineated in the mid-1700s to settle a property dispute. It was mapped out by two surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon

  3. Immigrants • England • France • Ireland • Scotland • Spain • Africa

  4. Year Round Crop Production • Tobacco • Sugar cane • Rice • Cotton • Peanuts • Corn---a staple food • Fruit

  5. Ample Water & Forests • Pecans • Fresh water and salt water fish • Shrimp • Crayfish • Catfish • Crab • Alligator

  6. The Southern Attitude • Southern hospitality---dates back to Colonial days • Relaxed lifestyle as compared to Northerners • Lost Cause Minstrels • Wear a mask to hide defeat • Immensely proud • Fiercely independent • Quick to take offense

  7. Virginia • English culinary heritage • Authentically southern food

  8. Foods of Virginia • Corn pone: cornbread shaped into oval mounds & fried • Batter Bread (called spoon bread throughout the South): cornbread type pudding • Brunswick Stew: (According to Virginias, it was named after Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George III) Stew made from chicken, ham bone, beef, rabbit, onions, tomatoes, celery, butter beans,corn, potatoes, red pepper, black pepper & other seasonings.

  9. Smithfield Hams • Native Americans taught settlers how to salt and smoke-cure hams. • Original Smithfield hams came from hogs raised in Smithfield, VA and were fed peanuts. • Today Smithfield hams must still come from Smithfield, VA, all other similar hams are called Country Hams.

  10. Red Eye Gravy • Made from the juice of a Smithfield or Country Ham and black coffee. • Legend has it Gen. Andrew Jackson told his cook, who had been drinking moonshine, to bring him some ham with gravy as red as his eyes.

  11. North Carolina---The Vale of Humility Between Two Mountains of Conceit. • Virginia to the north. • South Carolina to the south. • Both states traditionally are more industrialized and progressive. • North Carolina considers itself to be “down to earth.”

  12. Two Distinct Regions • Coastal North Carolina • Western N. Carolinas & the Blue Ridge Mountain people

  13. Mountain People • Very independent • Some still speak Old English---the language of Raleigh, Bacon and Shakespeare • Morn gloam • Rain Seed • Cowcumber • Mess of turnip salted • Tee toncy bit • Giggle soup

  14. Mountain People • Hearty, ample portions • Bacon & cabbage • Chicken soups, pot pies • Irish potatoes & hominy • Buckwheat pancakes • Tarts & puddings

  15. North Carolina Pig Pickin • West---barbecued pork shoulders basted in a tomato based finishing sauce. • Eastern---roast the whole pig, split down the middle and baste in a vinegar & pepper based sauce

  16. Coastal Carolinas • Hush puppies • Corn dodger: hush puppies country cousin; an oven-baked cornmeal biscuit, with a cannonball like quality • Pokeweed: used for poke salad. Name was derived from the brown paper sack it was collected in. Only the leaf is edible.

  17. Carolina Rice • “Carolina Gold” serving as a major cash crop in Colonial days • Used in many dishes • Hoppin John

  18. Eat poor that day, eat rich the rest of the year. Rice for riches and peas for peace.

  19. This dish is thought to have originated with African slaves on southern plantations, and is essentially black-eyed peas (cowpeas) cooked with salt pork and seasonings, and served with rice. There are several theories on the origin of the name, 'hoppin-john'; a lively waiter who served the dish at a Charleston hotel; a lame cook who hopped up and down while cooking it; and finally from a custom that children must hop around the table before the dish is served. It is traditionally served on New Year's Day in the Southern U.S., and is supposed to bring good luck during the coming year.

  20. Hoppin John??? • It was the custom for children to gather in the dining room as the dish was brought forth and hop around the table before sitting down to eat. • A man named John came "a-hoppin" when his wife took the dish from the stove. • An obscure South Carolina custom was inviting a guest to eat by saying, "Hop in, John" • The dish goes back at least as far as 1841, when, according to tradition, it was hawked in the streets of Charleston, South Carolina by a crippled black man who was know as Hoppin'John. • Some say that the dish got its name from a corruption of the word, bahatta-kachang, which is of African origin

  21. Southern Vegetables • Corn • Beans • Sweet potatoes or yams • Greens including turnip and dandelion • Black-eyed peas

  22. Southern Breakfast • Ham • Grits • Biscuits • Molasses

  23. Two Distinctive Cuisines • Soul Food---Soul represents the black/African-American lifestyle emphasizing directness, spontaneity, & uninhibited feelings. Both the food & music originated from the poor slaves & became the food of the south after the war. • Creole & Acadian (Cajun)---The food of the Louisiana French

  24. Soul Food • African-American invention---not African • Black slaves & later the free ate what was available to them. This included corn, greens, beans, pig (not the best parts), catfish • No part was wasted---feet, tail, snout, & ears were often pickled & boiled.

  25. Soul Food Includes • Pork • Chicken • Anything that could be made with cornmeal such as batter bread, hush puppies, hoe cake and cracklin corn bread. (Cracklin: pieces of hog skin that float to the top when rendered lard is melted.)

  26. Hoe cake: cornmeal pancake that was originally cooked over an open fire on the blade of a hoe. • Catfish • Black-eyed peas • Beans • Corn • Yams: dark orange tubers added to stews, fried as fritters, made into pones & pies • Pone: pudding • Greens of all types cooked with salt pork • Pot likker: rich mixture left on the bottom of the pot after cooking greens and fat & slab of pork • Chittlins (chitterlings): fried pork intestines • Spare ribs

  27. African Foods • Benne Seeds: sesame seeds • Okra: used throughout the south, often to thicken soups • Many spices

  28. Let da Good Times Roll!!! The Foods of Louisiana Creole & Cajun

  29. "New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."-- Mark Twain, 1884

  30. Creole: people of mixed French & Spanish ancestry. Their food is Grande Cuisine, with delicate blends of flavor and separate sauces. Recipes & chefs came from France or Spain Combined local ingredients with European cooking methods Cajun (Acadian): French Canadians driven from Canada by the British. Many settled in the Bayou. Queens of “le make do.” Nothing that moves by the house on all fours or on its belly will be looked at without an eye as to how it might taste cooked. Creole Versus Cajun (Acadian)

  31. How They are Similar • No one rule for cooking • No one recipe for a particular food • Rice is a staple dish • Most dishes begin with a roux • Common ingredients • crab, river shrimp, lake shrimp, oysters, crawfish, freshwater and saltwater fish, plus squirrels, wild turkeys, ducks, frogs, turtles, pork, homemade sausages, beans of all kinds, tomatoes, okra, yams, pecans, oranges and wines, liqueurs and brandy.

  32. Creole • Distinctive European influence as well as others • From France---Pastries & Bouillabaisse: fish soup, led to Louisiana gumbo • From Spain---Paella: a dish of rice, meat or seafood, vegetables & sausages led to jambalaya • Italy---pastry making and ice cream • Haitians from the West Indies brought smoke pots, exotic vegetables, spicy sauces and the use of tomatoes. Another influence on gumbo. • Native Americans (Choctaw)---ground sassafras leaves or file’, & bay leaves • African Slaves---kin gumbo (okra)

  33. Cajun • Spicy, sometimes fiery • Lots of rice • One dish meals • Strong, country food • No right way or wrong way to do it

  34. Louisiana Foods • Grillades: Veal round steak braised in a sauce of green pepper, celery, tomatoes, garlic, often served at breakfast • Café au lait: strong coffee with cream • Café brulot: strong coffee flavored with spices, citrus peel, & brandy; often flamed • Gumbo: soup/stew made from poultry, seafood, & vegetables thickened with okra or file’,but not both. Thickening is added after removing from heat so it won’t become stringy

  35. Jambalaya: shellfish, poultry, sausage simmered together with a spicy tomato sauce & served over rice • Red beans & Rice: Classic Monday dish flavored with cracked ham bone • Pralines: candy made from sugar, cream, & pecans • Petits fours: small pieces of cake often sliced and filled then covered in a icing that is poured over it • Beignets: Sweet pastry fried and covered with powdered sugar

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