Gamble Rogers once claimed that his home town of Snipe's Ford, Florida had an "outsized number of rural alchemists. It's not what you're thinking - we have an inordinate number of people who spend their waking hours trying to figure out ways to bleach their used coffee grinds and sell 'em to tourists on the interstate for grits. Which goes a long way towards understanding why so many northerners don't give a hoot for Southern cooking."

Dan