If you like dishes made out of a
piece of lettuce and ground up
peanuts and a maraschino
cherry and marshmallow
whip and a banana
You mil not get them in Savannah,
But if you seek something headier
than nectar and tastier than
ambrosia and more
palatable than manna,
Set your teeth, I beg you, in one
of these spécialités de
Savannah.
Everybody has the right to think
whose food is the most
gorgeous,
And I nominate Georgia's.
—Ogden Nash
Southern cookery has inspired more versification, disputation and calumniation than gin, politics or pulchritude. Senior Writer Michael Demarest,...