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SOUTHERN COOKING

Bitter my greens with vinegar,
garlic and zest of lemon rind!.
Don’t sweeten the collards!.
Let them be what they are,
an olfact!.!.!.scenting home!.

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You know your greens TD!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Your magic makes adjectives and in other poems, adverbs do the work of verbs!.!. Now, you've created a noun from an adjective!. We need a new dictionary!. The collards may be bitter, but the poem is sweet!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Put them next to the mac and cheese and sweet potatoes!
When you go in the back door and the collards are cooking,
you know you're home!. Can I offer you some cornbread!?









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I think!.!.!.about your Thanksgiving menu!. Jealous, that's what I am! I salivate like a Pavlov's Cat and nothing happens!. I thought you were going to send some of that turkey over to Paree, Frahnce!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

We grew up eating spinach with vinegar!. Later in life I learned to make authentic greens!. Don't forget the ham hocks!
(The skins make excellent cracklin's too!)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Throw just a little bit of fat back from the home smoked ham on mine! I like the collards mixed with kale and mustard greens!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

garlic being a natural antibiotic!.!.
lather it on perfunctorily
and have some real
common scents!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Now ah knows fo sho you ate dear Ruth's cookin! What a great Southern cook she was!.!.!.Glenn couldn't have found a better person, all the way around!.
Miss her lots!Www@QuestionHome@Com

AmenWww@QuestionHome@Com

There will be enough sweet in that Sweet Potato Pie!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I really like it keep up the good work
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Ahhh a man after my own nose!

nfd?Www@QuestionHome@Com

This is textbook TDE!. Short and unsweet!.Www@QuestionHome@Com