Southern & Soul

Come to Memphis, Beale Street, fill up on soul food blues and BBQ!

Fried Chicken, Collard Greens, Grits and Gravy, Fried Catfish, Jambalaya, Gumbo, Cornbread, Pecan Pie, Bourbon, Oysters, Biscuits, BBQ, Hamsteak-Mmm Mmm Mmm- Delicious but a bit greasy and heavy.

What?! Southern/Soul Food is way down here on the list? A three? I'd give it a 10 if I could. Gimme some fried chicken,BBQ Ribs,black eyed peas,collard greens & cornbread and I'm yo' Daddy!

Yummy. Man, this list is getting my stomach rumbling.

The cradle of all American cooking. This is where all of our food that we now take for granted began, including Cajun and Creole. Southern food is just plain good cooking. I think southerners created pot lucks and church socials. What better way to spend a sunday than to sample all that good cooking.

Soul food is a concept of how a food is enjoyed. Any cuisine can be made into soul. It signafies family, laughter, hard work and hardships. Soul food is the foundation that America was built upon. The rich and the poor delighted in the rewards this cusine had to offer when America was an infant. Soul food is the best because it has done the most.

I honestly thought they were joking when they told me they deep fried whole turkeys...moving to the south has been--an experience--to say the least. The strategy behind the cooking here is to deep fry everything, and put lots of butter and gravy on it. I've developed a love of grits, fried okra, cornbread, country fried steak...mmmmm

Fried Chicken !!!!!

everything but the chitterlings. i've been told that they're delicious when cooked right, but both times i had them, the folks who were munchin' em obviously thought they were cooked right but it was and is a no-can-do for me.

Ahhh, a beautiful, hearty, soulful taste of home. Easy home cooking (CastleBee should be happy!;-), ,agnificent flavor, and no one ever goes hungry. Even for you New Yorkers, there is bound to be something you like. Steak, that's a great one. Get it medium or medium well, no other way will do. Of course that is just a personal testimony. Get a side of hush puppies...okay, I'm about to make myself drool here. Music is a good addition to the mood of the meal. Overall, this is just a great example of the GOOD things that the South has provided, and no one can debate that. Take care, everyone!

Well, shet mah mouf' an' kiss mah grits! Seriously, Southern cooking is designed to fill you up, though its nutritional value has been questioned for years. Corn bread is truly an American dish, having been perfected by the Native American peoples. Chitterlings (chitlins) are OK once you can get past the awful smell they give off. Okra and black-eye peas are sumptuous, though I question the high salt content. I'm biased towards New England cooking, anyway, and so my regional biases are obvious. Now, clam chowder, white bread, Yankee pot roast...mmmm...

I don’t know why people in the south cook so well, but they really do. Maybe it has something to do with having little and appreciating it. Throw in some creativity and love and you’ve got a great southern dish. I’ve been aware of this great cooking since I was a very young child on my way back from Florida with my parents when we stopped in Georgia and I had my first taste of grits. To this day I am amazed at the people who turn their nose up at the very word – because to me grits represent one of the simplest yet tastiest utilizations of corn known to man. And don’t even talk to me about putting anything sweet on it – it has got to be just a little butter, salt and pepper. But the range of southern cooking is a so vast – red beans and rice, black-eyed peas, corn bread, chitterlings, greens, smoked ham, biscuits. Just good, basic food that, if done by someone who really knows what they’re doing, will send your taste buds on a trip they will never forget!