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When I think of Southern food I don’t immediately picture only fried chicken, cheesy grits, or overindulgent desserts. Those dishes are part of the story, but Southern cuisine is much richer—rooted in fresh, local ingredients and shaped by Native, African, Caribbean, European, and Creole traditions. To me, Southern food brings to mind deep-green collards and mustard greens, sweet corn, a variety of cornmeals, succotash, sweet potatoes, fragrant peaches, wild blackberries, and tender, flaky biscuits. More often than not I see Southern food as clean, fresh, nourishing, and made with love. Fried foods have their place, but they don’t define the whole cuisine.