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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Well you see very little of either in Southern Cookbooks. What we aren't our own country? We have everything from mountains to deserts to forests and beaches. Also a pretty good size canyon and an area for wine.
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Texas could have probably been its own country if it had wanted to. I think that Sam Houston & Davy Crockett & those guys
wanted to join the U.S. It couldn't be a country now, of course, because Abraham Lincoln unilaterally decided that states can't withdraw from the Union, even if they joined voluntarily (no, I'm not an Abraham Lincoln fan).
I really can understand why Texas might not be included in Southern cookbooks. The food in the eastern part of the state definitely reflects Southern influence (how can it not, being smack dab next to Louisiana and Arkansas?), but it quickly becomes less and less Southern-like the further west in Texas that you go.
There must be widespread ignorance about what we call the "real Florida." The chefs and cooks who write the cookbooks probably don't travel anywhere in the interior of the state to know what exists here--they just know Palm Beach/Miami/Miami Beach and maybe Orlando. Maybe I can compile a Florida cookbook and make millions of $$$ . . . .