Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.

Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples.

The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great dramas of history with the lives of ordinary people.

A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek.

If you meditate in perfect peace and then flash someone an irritable look because they make noise or their child cries, you are entirely missing the point.

Every puff was like sucking in the abyss, yet he inhaled until his lungs filled with toxic smoke that clouded his thoughts of her.

The idea turned Facebook into the digital version of a message in a bottle.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

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