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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
I didn't realize Paula Deen might have been referencing an actual specific restaurant: http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2..._nostalgia.php
"I knew immediately which restaurant she was referring to -- Pittypat's Porch, named for the slave-owning Gone With The Wind character, which claims to be the longest continuously operational restaurant in Atlanta. It opened in 1967, and hasn't changed much in the intervening decades. It aims for "an atmosphere similar to an old plantation." |
It didn't even occur to me that she was talking about Pittypat's Porch, though it makes perfect sense. I remember it from 30 years ago.
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
I thought it was just me. FSUZeta, would you mind translating that blog(?) for us? What do you interpret him to be saying? I only gathered the "you're from the Deep South...I'm Black and not mad..." part of it.
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Not FSUZeta, but what I got from it was that he was less disaapointed about her use of the N-word (and I did like his
Avenue Q reference -- "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist") and more disappointed that as the supposed maven of Southern cooking, she failed to talk about or acknowledge where Southern foods came from and the sources that made Southern cuisine what it is. He described this as part of a larger problem where a lack of diverse voices about Southern food leads some to write enslaved Africans and their descendants out of the story.
It did get a bit dense, rambly and hard to follow at times, but I there was some worthwhile stuff in there.