Barbara Kingsolver, animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
“The wrong people always worry. The people who are the real problem never worry about anything.”
—James Lee Burke, Wayfaring Stranger
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
“Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain’t gonna be happy in heaven either!”
—Nancy B. Brewer, Southern Writer
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
“Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.”
― Anthony Bourdain
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“When the gossip got really good, my grandmother would switch from English to French. And the rest would be in French, so that little eavesdroppers couldn’t hear the rest of the story. I knew that one day I would learn French, because French was the gossip language. All the good parts happened in French.”
—Eugene Walter,
recalling his childhood in Mobile, Alabama.
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
“And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind:
‘Well, that’s that. I’m off, and if you don’t believe I’m leaving, just count the days I’m gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it’ll be me that’s not calling. Goodbye, old girl, and good luck.'”
―Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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“My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It’s like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it’s a duck. And if you ain’t quacking, you ain’t no duck.”
—Rapper, Bun B.
Louisiana Egret: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
“Live a little, love a lot”
— Kenny Chesney, Live A Little.
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“Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ‘I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I’m going to snow anyway.’”
—Maya Angelou
Ice-before the snow photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
