Southern Food Fights

Now that you’re fluent in Southern voices, flavors, and regions, you’re ready to talk about Southern food with just about anyone from Hamlet, North Carolina to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and all points in between.

But talking is entry-level stuff. Do you remember the scene at the start of The Apostle in which June Carter Cash’s character placates a neighbor disturbed by her preacher son making a racket? “Ever since he was an itty-bitty boy, sometimes he talks to the Lord and sometimes he yells at the Lord,” she says. “Tonight, he just happens to be yelling.”