I may have come to the South by way of Northern parents (who hail from Irish, Scottish, and Swedish stock), but I am a southern girl, through and though. This is most evident in my food preferences. I love to drag my husband out to Cracker Barrel to eat, because it’s one of the few places that serves a LOT of southern food – grits and greens and dumplings and white gravy…mmm.

My favorites, by far, are sweet tea, fried okra, and biscuits. There’s no point in drinking iced tea if it’s not loaded up with sugar, so that it washes down your throat and quenches your thirst easily. I prefer homemade sweet tea, but Chick-fil-A and Wendy’s are acceptable. My mother used to put it in my bottle as a baby, because it wouldn’t spoil like milk. I was in Ohio once and went through the Wendy’s drive through to order a sweet tea. When I arrived at the window, I was handed a tea, and packets of sweet n low. Yeah, wrong state for sweet tea.

Fried okra is one of those things you either love, or hate. My husband hates it – he calls it slimy. But the slime is one of the best parts! You can’t go wrong with any type of veggie that’s been battered and fried in oil.

Biscuits…homemade of course, are best, but Cracker Barrel has some good ones. I load mine up with butter and grape jelly and can easily pound down 3 or 4 after my meal. I used to start off my workday with a stop to Chick-Fil-A for a sweet tea and a biscuit. Bojangles is our frist stop upon entering South Carolina, so that we can savor biscuits hot out out of the oven, lard still glistening on their golden brown tops.

(You can probably hear my arteries hardening from where you sit!)

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