Southern Food

I completely agree, southern cuisine is a huge mixture of a number of different cultures and not traceable to any single culture. As I was reading this article, I noticed that a lot of southern cooking wasn't based so much on the what foods each culture used in their cooking, but how they cooked whatever type of food they could find. Multiple cultures, such as French, Indian, African, and Spanish, all cooked the same types of food in different manners, due to a lack of variety in ingredients. And depending on where you were in the South, the ratio of the cultures in that area could drastically change the style in which the same foods were cooked. I had always known that this was true to some extent, but I found it interesting to what extend these different cultural ratios could actually play a role in the style of food.