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I'm Frances Lamb and this is the splendid table from APM.

You know, for a bunch of years in my life, I spent a fair amount of time living in and traveling to south.

From the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and New Orleans to short stints in Nashville and annual visits to Atlanta, I've edited books on Southern food and count among my friends some of the greatest Southern

chefs and food writers of three generations, really.

But even with all that, I'll never feel like I know everything I need to know about this rich

and complex and complicated region.

One person who really showed me that was the late, great Edna Lewis, whose beautiful

writing and mastery of technique totally changed my imagination of what rural Virginia cooking was.

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