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This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Nov 18, Ruth rated it it was amazing. Southern Fried Child is a series of anecdotes about Jimmie's growing up years in Brookhaven Mississippi in the 's.
We hear how the Baptist girl going to a Catholic school fell in love with the nun who taught her first grade, and piano. We hear how Jimmie realized that the elaborate angel wings her father made for her performance in the Christmas play were his way of saying "I love you".
Fishing is Jimmie's favorite sport and she learned it from her father--and we get to join them. Who wouldn Southern Fried Child is a series of anecdotes about Jimmie's growing up years in Brookhaven Mississippi in the 's.
Who wouldn't love a story about Elvis Presley Junior Smith? Most of us have a "what I did to my hair" story, and Jimmy's is as funny as any of them.
Did you ever wonder what happened in the back rooms of a funeral home? Jimmy saw a real almost ghost there once. Sometimes when people start telling stories about the colorful people in town it is easy for the reader to become embarrassed for those about whom the stories are written. It may be funny that you walked through town with your skirt tucked into your pantyhose, but do you really want that in print for folks to read for years on end? For the most part, Jimmie avoids this. While she mentions that her parents were alcoholics, she doesn't tell stories of their drunken behavior, and were it not for mentions of their alcoholism, you'd probably consider them ideal parents after reading this book.
She tells of Lola's aberrant behavior, but lets us know that she really cared for and about Lola. While my high school and college years were spent in Mississippi, I'm not from there, and we lived on the Coast which anyone from Mississippi will tell you is different from the rest of the state so I never really developed a southern accent except to the ears of my Wisconsin relatives and what little I did have has mellowed since I've been in New Orleans no southern accents here so when reading it myself, I didn't get the full effect of the book like I did when Jimmie read it out loud; however, I could picture Jimmie on the front porch in a rocking chair telling those stories to her grandkids in her lovely southern drawl.
Since the book is a series of anecdotes rather than a running narrative, it is an easy book to pick up and read for a few minutes and then leave. If you like stories of ordinary lives seen through extraordinary eyes and written about in beautiful prose, I think you'll enjoy Southern Fried Child In Home Seeker'S Paradise as much or more than I did.
May 11, Charlie Hewitt rated it it was amazing. I live in Brookhaven, the setting for the Book.
May 21, Cissy rated it it was amazing. If you loves stories about the south, especially those told from first hand experience - this is a real gem!! Jimmie's heartfelt, beautiful, colorful and sometimes almost mystical tales of her childhood made me want to jump right back into my own blissful days of the 's. People of our generation say, "Those days are gone forever. Sometimes, it's good to remember the past. Kym rated it it was amazing Jul 08, Chapter activities unite alums from coast to coast. Their location changed this summer and they are now meeting at Market Bites in the Interiors Market in the Fondren area of Jackson.
There were 25 attendees at this charter event, including one from the Gulf Coast , one from Memphis , two from the Birmingham area, five from the Atlanta area, two from Columbus , two from the Nashville area, and 13 from the Chattanooga area. The theme was "A Taste of Chattanooga.
James Allen recorded and provided music via CD, since they were unable to attend.
It's as if Jimmie is sitting beside you telling you her stories: A friend and co-worker came with me to put starch in the noodle I had for a spine. An informal alumnae gathering in Washington, D. Tuesday, June 19, An Enigmatic Family. She disagreed and nudged me more so I started thinking about it. Wendy rated it it was amazing Jul 07,
She has been an instrumental leader, organizer and promoter of the Chattanooga Chapter for quite some time. The "Queen of Southern Cuisine" might not be quite ready to ring the dinner bell in Myrtle Beach, but let's just say the biscuits are in the oven. Paula Deen's Family Kitchen, the restaurant whose namesake created a culinary empire built on country cooking and down-home charm, plans to open its second location at Broadway at the Beach in Deen, who also co-owns restaurants with her sons in Savannah, Georgia, and elsewhere in the South, also opened her self-titled retail store at Broadway at the Beach last year.
But her new restaurant, first launched in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, puts the focus on the concept of family dining, where patrons gather around large tables and self-serve from platters and bowls of some of her most famous recipes.
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Patrons also choose from bacon, sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy, hash browns, grits, and fresh fruit - everything a family needs to fuel up for a full day of Myrtle Beach vacationing.