Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing Professional Things get a little salty

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Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing Professional Things get a little saltyAuthor: Francis Lam How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It's so often imagined as either the touchingly down home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they've spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and of traditions that form identities