Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on–pigs’ entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish–anything that didn’t bite you first.

Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on–pigs’ entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish–anything that didn’t bite you first.

– Shirley Abbott –

Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South

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