re: Guess who Southern Living Mag named best southern food city.

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NOLA. Imagine that.

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Not hard to if you try

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Not sure how they got Nashville at 6 just ahead of Lafayette but that's b.s. Nashville's food scene sucks.

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When I lived there in the early 90’s yeah, it was horrid, lines literally wrapping outside the building of Red Lobster on Friday nights was a dead give away, but since then, it’s making a name for itself. Quite a turn around if you ask me, an about face really, and considering how cosmo that city is with people from all over the country it’s a given really that it would have a food scene eventually. Good for Nashville. It’s got good food to go with a nice place to live.

Lol Jackson MS is better than some of the ones listed here. Notice that nearly all of them are tourist cities. New Orleans could win every time, but this is such an amatuer review. -10

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Nashville's food scene sucks

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Depends on what you want.
If it’s seafood, yeah...Nashville sucks.
But we have everything else covered.

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Nashville, and Asheville lol. Jesus Christ, we're talking southern cuisine here! Neither of those places even have delta catfish or fresh gulf shrimp for starters. Lafayette, New Orleans and Savannah are the only other towns listed that do farm raised catfish. If nothing else, Jackson has some greatest restaurants in the deep south outside of N.O. and lots of them. Atlanta shouldn't be in here since it's a real metropolis and no longer has a cultural food identity. We aren't talking multiculturalism and numbers in this race.

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Holy Rubberized Palate Batman. You seriously think Jackson frickin Mississippi can hold Ashville’s Jock strap when it comes to food? You’re out of your mind. And your criteria is fried catfish. that’s the best part. Fried food.. you are too much man.

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Read the thread title again, carefully.

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Best southern food city


Yep, i got it.

Not best fried catfish, gulf shrimp or hush puppies food city, but best southern food city, IOW, best food city in the south. It’s also not best gumbo, poboy, or seafood city either, just best southern food city.

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At any rate, you obviously don't really know about Jackson,.or MS

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Lived there for a year, have family that live there, and eaten out there many times, but yeah, other than that, not much.

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But concerning Southern food, Asheville would be a page or two underneath Jackson in any legit poll.

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Mmmmk

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Hell I would be surprised if a good percentage of the fresh veggies, they use, didn't come from Mississippi.

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You seriously don’t know much about this or you’d know how high on the priority list that local/regional foods are to places like Asheville and other food cities like it. Farm to table is a newer phrase, but the meaning is as old as the hills and it’s how regional food develops. You cook what’s in your back yard and what’s in season. It’s why you find more fish in Italian port cities, and beef, pork, and chicken in areas not on the coast. Not all Italian food is the same, and our understanding of real Italian food is that of third graders. It’s why menues change based on seasons in restaurants taken seriously because fresh makes the difference. Same can be said for Southern food, and American food.


And BTW, fresh gulf shrimp isn’t found in places like Nashville and Asheville because they aren’t on the Gulf of Mexico.

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And BTW, fresh gulf shrimp isn’t found in places like Nashville and Asheville because they aren’t on the Gulf of Mexico.

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You are correct about Asheville and Nashville not being on the Gulf. And that is something of greatness, that you'd have to take off the menu there. This is supposed to be a poll, and they lose points here. Also farm raised catfish is VERY much a southern food, and you can't get it there. It can be cooked a variety of ways and is enjoyed by out-of-towners.

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You seriously don’t know much about this or you’d know how high on the priority list that local/regional foods are to places like Asheville and other food cities like it. Farm to table is a newer phrase, but the meaning is as old as the hills and it’s how regional food develops. You cook what’s in your back yard and what’s in season. It’s why you find more fish in Italian port cities, and beef, pork, and chicken in areas not on the coast. Not all Italian food is the same, and our understanding of real Italian food is that of third graders. It’s why menues change based on seasons in restaurants taken seriously because fresh makes the difference. Same can be said for Southern food, and American food.

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Mumbo jumbo, I'm not geographically challenged like most people. Can you tell me what Asheville has that Jackson just can't have? Other than freshwater trout..which is excellent, and regionally significant to Southern Appalachia.

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But concerning Southern food, Asheville would be a page or two underneath Jackson in any legit poll

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Fact.

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At any rate, you obviously don't really know about Jackson,.or MS

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Seems to be the case. That's unfortunate for the sake of this discussion.

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Yep, i got it.

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No man. "Southern food" is synonymous with MS. Recipes have been made here for generations and generations, and are still made, the food is grown here, harvested here, and exported from here to other places. Louisiana can say the same. People also grow things on their own for local farmers markets and all types of restaurants, yes...they do that here as well. Lots of local restaurants here use locally grown goods and recipes on their menus. The just have a much wider variety of selected goods to choose from.

You couldn’t find Nashville on a map much less know anything about their food scene

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You bite your tongue. Nashville has great food and hot women.

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Yeah? Well NOLA has great food and black women!

As someone who travels from New Orleans to Jackson to Savannah, and has done so for 15 years, I'm going to have to get a list of some of these great Jackson eating establishments.