If you’re into southern baking enough to be here on this blog, odds are you may not need a primer on southern food, but just in case you want one anyway the good folks over at Southern Foodways have one all wrapped up for you:

Southern Food Primer

John Egerton writes, “Within the South itself, no other form of cultural expression, not even music, is as distinctly characteristic of the region as the spreading of a feast of native food and drink before a gathering of kin and friends.  For as long as there has been a South, and people who think of themselves as Southerners, food has been central to the region’s image, its personality, and its character.” – Southern Food

Need a primer on Southern Food?  Here ya go.  Download as a .pdf.  Or scroll through this page to read the full text online.

(It’s really worth a read, go ahead, click.)