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Does anyone else find Southern cuisine outside of LA lacking?
Posted on 6/29/15 at 11:47 am
Posted on 6/29/15 at 11:47 am
I enjoy lots of the southern staples bur since leaving La I really think Southern cuisine is very bland and uncreative and most southern cooks just are not very good at cooking. The southern food I come across uses the most basic of seasoning. Basically salt and pepper. Forget fresh and dried herbs. No thyme. No bay leaf. Fresh parsley. Nope. Green onion , bell pepper, celery, garlic. Nope. It is basically stewed vegetables and fried meat.
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Posted on 6/29/15 at 11:49 am to mouton
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I enjoy lots of the southern staples bur since leaving La I really think Southern cuisine is very bland and uncreative and most southern cooks just are not very good at cooking. The southern food I come across uses the most basic of seasoning. Basically salt and pepper. Forget fresh and dried herbs. No thyme. No bay leaf. Fresh parsley. Nope. Green onion , bell pepper, celery, garlic. Nope. It is basically stewed vegetables and fried meat.
Maybe if you're talking about southern traditional cuisine rehashed over and over, but I certainly don't think this is the case somewhere like Atlanta.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 11:53 am to Pettifogger
I'm referring to the food people cook in their homes not restaurants.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 11:57 am to mouton
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Nope. It is basically stewed vegetables and fried meat.
You forgot gravy
Posted on 6/29/15 at 12:04 pm to brodeo
Gravy outside of LA is grease and flour. No onions, herbs/aromatics. No seasoning other than salt and pepper. Shitty cooks.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 12:15 pm to mouton
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Gravy outside of LA
True.. LA style gravy is usually superior to anywhere.
I don't think it's bad cooks as much as tradition and not caring as much. Same for Texas BBQ snobs who frown on adding any kind of sauce to meat. Even though most folks like a good sauce.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 12:16 pm to mouton
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No bay leaf.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 12:22 pm to mouton
You need to get invited into some better houses...or at least eat home cooked meals in other sections of the country, as compared to Southern home cooked food. Honestly, I think you are way off base . . 
This post was edited on 6/29/15 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 6/29/15 at 12:23 pm to mouton
On the contrary. I find LA gives itself entirely too much credit for its food and the rest of the south is just as apt to season something properly, if not more inclined, than your average Boudreaux.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 12:26 pm to AppyTiger
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I find LA gives itself entirely too much credit for its food and the rest of the south is just as apt to season something properly,
Maybe so, but just like the OP is being questions, what kind of LA food have you had and from where?
Posted on 6/29/15 at 12:31 pm to mouton
Funny thing is, I have a relative who cooks about the most bland food of anybody I know who home cooks. And she was born and raised in New Orleans; spent 90% of her life there.
You are around people who aren't using garlic, peppers and onions? I'm calling BS.
You are around people who aren't using garlic, peppers and onions? I'm calling BS.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 12:33 pm to BayouBlitz
I am calling bullshite on you knowing much about traditional deep south country cooking then.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 1:13 pm to AppyTiger
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I find LA gives itself entirely too much credit for its food
Careful. You're treading on thin ice. People from Baton Rouge don't take a liking to others not agreeing that their food and city is the absolute best in the world. I'm from the North, and according to folks here, I know nothing about food and will even burn water if I tried to boil it.
If I don't hear from you soon, I'll know that you've been banned.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 1:28 pm to mouton
You could take on either side of this argument and make valid points. Sure there are some southern folks who can't cook worth a shite, have no patience for actual recipes and would prefer boxed and canned foods, don't understand building flavors and are generally lazy and shitty cooks. There's also tons of people who can make restaurant quality meals in their homes by focusing on fresh ingredients, tried and true techniques and building flavor.
To speak in one generality as if it's truth is pretty stupid.
To speak in one generality as if it's truth is pretty stupid.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 1:31 pm to mouton
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Gravy outside of LA is grease and flour. No onions, herbs/aromatics. No seasoning other than salt and pepper. Shitty cooks.
This is exaggerated because I know about a half dozen houses in the greater Houston area that know how to make a gravy.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 1:35 pm to TigerHam85
I am not referring to the skill in the kitchen in an area but tthe quality of the food and culinary tradition in an area.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 1:36 pm to TigerHam85
Did they move there from Acadiana area?
Posted on 6/29/15 at 1:39 pm to mouton
I've eaten home cooked meals all over the south and I have no idea what you are talking about
sorry
sorry
Posted on 6/29/15 at 1:46 pm to Salmon
I am talking about traditional southern cuisine being limited in ingredients, levels of flavor and being rudimentary in technique.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 1:50 pm to mouton
give me some examples
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