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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.

I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

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

I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It's not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.

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

Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

I'm from the South - I love to eat, and that's why I have to exercise.

When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.

I am a Southern girl at heart, so I have a pulled pork sandwich and Key lime pie every day. It's a problem.