04-20-2023, 12:16 AM
(04-19-2023, 09:51 PM)Chatwoman Wrote:
1:23:50 Jon asks whether the other guy thinks that southern hospitality is a leftover trait from a bygone earth age...
I think it's an interesting concept.
Kentucky has a good share of that southern hospitality, but I think other states have it going on even more...
I think Mississippi is one of the last vestiges of true southern hospitality, and a lot of it is tied into the food culture.
It runs in the same vein with the southern style cooking, the comfort food, meant to bring solace and a sense of being nurtured.
In Kentucky, as far as I can tell, there is still some of that culture left, but it's mainly among the older generations of southern women who were raised in a traditionalist kinda way, the grannies and whatnot.
If you were lucky enough to be raised around such women, it can rub off on you. I take pride in cooking in that southern style and I do so with the intention of nurturing people. For me it's a "love language"... you love someone, then you show it by such demonstrations that will be taken for granted by people who don't have the capacity to recognize what you're doing.
The hearty soulful food culture is still alive and well in Mississippi, it's part of what they're so known for, and that's why I say it's one of the last remnants of hospitality in the south.
I think it came from the women who cooked for large families, their own or others, and it is a remnant from a now distant time, but I'm not sure it came from a previous earth age.
