6/6/2023 0 Comments Fannie of fried green tomatoes![]() ![]() According to the book "The Fried Green Tomato Swindle and Other Southern Culinary Adventures" by food historian Robert F. Then I read something shocking: Fried green tomatoes didn't originate in the South at all. Kelly Kazek interviewing Fannie Flagg in Huntsville, Alabama, in 2013. (My mom knew the best way to make me eat veggies was to fry them, or to cook them until they were a yummy, buttery mush … in other words, the correct ways to prepare veggies in the south.) I loved them because a) they were tomatoes, one of my fave veggies, b) they were battered and fried, and c) they were battered and fried. My love affair with this culinary delight began as a child when my mother would make them for supper. ![]()
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