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- “We do not choose our past. We inherit it. Thus, in all our most essential traits, we do not choose our identity. We have to live with it.” Paul K. Conkin, “Hot, Humid, and Sad” Journal of Southern History LXIV:1 (Feb 1998)
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A Gastronomic Home
Sunday, June 2, 2013
When I stepped off the plane in Little Rock — on that decade-ago trip that combined history research with my first visit to extended family in fourteen years — I was famished….Thank goodness my cousin had recommended The Black-Eyed Pea, with its chicken-fried chicken, black-eyed peas with ham and lots of pepper, cornbread, and a […]