Hi to my TimesDaily Friends,
Feels good to get on a different subject -- CORNBREAD! Growing up in Sheffield, I learn to eat real cornbread. However, once I left Alabama, first in the Air Force, and then living in California -- they do not have cornbread. They have cake, which they call cornbread -- so much sugar that all you need is icing and you could put candles on it and call it a birthday cake.
When I am in a restaurant and they ask if I want cornbread, I always ask, "Do you have any made the Southern way, with no sugar?" They look at me as though I had lost my mind.
I will tell you another Southern delicacy that I cannot get in California -- FRIED OKRA. I love it with a passion; but forget trying to find it in a restaurant here. About twenty years ago, my mom came to visit and cooked me fried okra. About two weeks after she left, I came home from work and my beautiful Filipina wife was beaming as she told me, "I have a special treat for you."
She did everything right -- except she deep-fried the okra instead of pan frying it. Still, it tasted pretty good.
Ten years ago, I was in Atlanta for two weeks on business. I found a great deli style restaurant that had fried okra -- and I ate there every night. In two weeks I gained about ten pounds -- but, boy did it taste great.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill Gray
billdory@pacbell.net
Alabama bred,
California fed,
Blessed by God to be a Christian American!