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Southern food certainly carries a stereotype, but I feel like that's turning around a little. There are great Southern chefs who are finding ways to showcase our traditional recipes in deliciously healthy ways. For me, the key is to use fresh fruits and vegetables and cut some of the butter and fat without sacrificing the yumminess of the dish.

In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.

Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.

I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.

I'm a Southerner.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.

For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be.