I was reared in the foothills of South Carolina, and when someone close to or in our family passed away, my kin were first out of the gate with the grief-comforts of casseroles, macaroni salads, and colorful, oddly-named desserts. It is how we console those who mourn the passing of a loved one – fat, [...]
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Being Southern: Manners First
My mother and her five sisters were The Gasaway Girls. I always shook my head a little as I described to my more cosmopolitan friends the deeply Southern behaviors that were as natural to me as sweet tea or corn bread and buttermilk. I learned this from all the Gasaway Girls: Manners first. [...]
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