Pam has been telling me about Somewhere South on PBS for a long time. I finally found it last night and it's delightful, whether you're fromThe South proper or elsewhere. I started watching it last night in my casita bedroom and I'm hooked. I learned that the town of Clarkston, Georgia, is the most diverse in the nation, in terms of different nationalities living there! Who knew?
The first episode is about greens, farmers markets, a Native American homecoming feast, and the different ways that people cook greens. While it focuses on collards, I never knew there were so many edible greens. All nationalities plants their own greens in gardens that replicate the cooking styles of their homelands and teach the host of the show how they cook them. What we call "Southern cooking" is actually a mix of Native American and Black cultures' cuisine.
When I can travel again, I want to visit so many of the places covered in this delightful show, each episode an hour. If you're a passport member of PBS, and perhaps even if you're not, you can watch it online.
My bathroom is completely bare and smells of concrete, so I am about to take my first shower in years. I'm a tub soaker, and the new bathtub in my driveway is being installed this morning. At the moment, I have a yard ornament of the old toilet in my front yard--because the people who bought the vanity also want it and are coming, I hope, to pick it up today.
Otherwise, Jan may do what she did years ago when the old toilet was the new toilet--bring flowers to "plant" in the old one then on the porch!
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