Whats with the cooking terminology (smidgen, mite, etc.)?
It’s NOT to confuse judges from the James Beard Awards, although that’s an awfully good guess. It’s just more evidence of the colorful Southern speech that’s disappearing faster than devilled eggs at the church picnic. We grew up with these expressions and it is in our very marrow to know the perfect definition of “passel,” “mite,” “teense,” etc. Its’ God-given; you can’t learn it. What’s with those womanless wedding fund-raisers? Unkind folks (usually those who have had at least a semester of abnormal psychology at some silly school or the other) often speculate that rural men who dress as women for pageants and mock weddings are enjoying it just a LITTLE too much. I don’t agree. I think it takes a man very much secure in his masculinity to wear a Nerf football bra and Family Dollar Store high heels in front of hundreds of his friends and neighbors. Why does snow turn a Southerner into a fool? Because, as I state in my book, we don’t have enough experience with it. Hurricanes are the
