Attn: Northern Yanks

[Thomas Rogers]

KL,



You are kidding right? Northerners can't cook? You are serious? I'll grant you northern barbeque is an oxymoron, but I have to say, I've eaten WELL in the north. Depends on where you go, of course.



Greek-owned and run diners have some of the best food in the world...predominatealy a northeast thing (almost exclusively at one time). Jewish deli...again, ever heard of Carnegie Deli?



Chicago food...NYC food...Buffalo chicken wings, Philadelphia cheesesteak, ...



As far as cities that call for the top chefs, I have to think NYC and LA are beating Atlanta for the draw of the chefs...again, an indicator.



...c'mon...Northerners can cook.



I think what you will see is that we don't have our own, true style of cooking...there is a "southern style", but no "northern style"...



I was cooking southern style in the north before I knew what it was. Using bacon grease as an ingredient; sausage gravy; homemade biscuits...etc.



TJR

 

[Kevin Lang]

As far as cities that call for the top chefs, I have to think NYC and LA are beating Atlanta for the draw of the chefs...again, an indicator.



...c'mon...Northerners can cook.

So LA is a Northern city now? Why are you comparing the cities to Atlanta? Also, your argument does not account for the possibility that Atlanta doesn't need to draw chefs because it already has ample. :grin:

(Not saying it does, but you didn't specify)

Chicago food...NYC food...Buffalo chicken wings, Philadelphia cheesesteak

Philly cheesesteak is NOT high-quality food. Shoot, I'd rather have the Lloyds stuff from Giant over that.



Same with Buffalo chicken wings....and chicken in all forms is a Southern food, just cause it found its way north, and some dudes threw some sauce on it does not let the north claim it.

Jewish deli...again, ever heard of Carnegie Deli?

I've heard of it, but never been, so I can't compare. Have you?



Chicago food & NYC food = predominately Italian food in my book, and it'll be a cold day in Hell before I agree that such food is the epitome of palate...or even palatable.





Lastly,

Greek-owned and run diners have some of the best food in the world...predominatealy a northeast thing (almost exclusively at one time).

Absolutely Not! There is a large chain of Greek-owned, staffed, and run diners in the Sprawl here known as the "Double T Diner", and it prides itself on representing the Greek dining paradigm, and receives accolades for doing so, meaning it is a representative sample. On that, it is heinous. Overpriced food, low quality, long waits, communication can be a debacle...it's absurd.



Last time I went (last weekend, was forced by an event), 3 pancakes, a coke, and some hash browns cost 14 bucks. Needless to say, the Denny's 4 dollar infinite pancake deal obliterated them.

 

[Thomas Rogers]

KL,



Who said anything about "quality food"? You said "can cook"...to me, "can cook" is more about "tastes good" than anything else. Some of the best tasting, most well prepared food starts from less than quality ingredients...that's where the art and the taste come in, IMHO.



But, we are done talking, I'm afraid.



Once you say something favorable about Denny's then you've lost me. I can't talk to a guy about eateries if he has anything, and I mean anything, good to say about Denny's. In my book, they are the worst of the worst, hands down. Worse than even the crappiest IHOP or Waffle House for a choke and puke breakfast place.



Obviously our tastes are very different.



Still, if you simply have a position that northern folks can't cook (as a blanket, all encompassing statement as you made it) then obviously that's something I will never agree with. I would never say that about any region or its people...and like the man in black, I've been everywhere man.



lol



P.S. A coke and pancakes at the same meal. I'm supposed to take culinary opinion from a guy that has that combo? Milk, chocolate milk, coffee, hot chocolate, heck even water...but a coke with breakfast food doesn't come off as having a sophisticated pallete.



TJR

 

[A K]

A coke and pancakes at the same meal.

I think there's a Ron White joke that begins this way.

 

[Scott Tanner]

After 12 years as a scoutmaster and dad to an eagle scout, real cooking is taking your time and doing it right.. after a 10 mile hike, anything tastes good... LOL



My favorite it a lightly salted and peppered steak cooked right on a glowing bed of hickory coals... 5 mins/side... drool...

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[Steve McKellop]

Heard an advertisement on the radio today, in Raleigh I think I was, something about having a barbecue ........... damned carpetbaggers! :bwahaha::bwahaha: