Can I get a glass of sweet tea?
I was born on the Gulf Coast of Florida in an Air Force Hospital. Three months later I hopped (ok, my mom carried me) on my first jet. One might say I have been moving every sense. My great-aunt Gin moved to Florida as a teenager. She set up shop in Leesburg, first with a guy that rode a motorcycle and then with the chief of police. She would regularly complain to me that she had lived in Florida for decades and was still considered a transplant. Her complaint continued with: “…but YOU! You got sand in your shoes and will always be a Florida cracker.”
That jet I spoke of dropped me off in the Shenandoah Valley of the great Commonwealth of Virginia…still the south, but a bit too far north for a soul serving life as a Florida cracker. At least once a year I return to the (Happy) Valley where I get drunk on real sweet tea. And if the tea wasn’t responsible enough for a few extra pounds, there’s potatoes and tons of meat and homemade ice creams and the pie (OH HALLELUAI!! THE FRESH HOT FRUIT PIES! Can I get an “Amen!” from all you all good Southern Baptist?). I am going to have to start booking two seats for my derriere on the plane ride back to Japan and then join a Sumo stable.
While sitting in a rocking chair on the back porch, sucking down sweet tea and enjoying a sun set, something truly strange crossed the table in front of me. I was shocked because something that wasn’t edible was on the table. It was a copy of Garden and Gun. God Bless Dixie! Only someone from the good ol’ South (high on sweet tea, of course) could produce something like this. I must admit, I did a double; then pondered the obvious juxtaposition. I took another sip of tea, which cleared my head and realized that few things could be paired in such harmony.
If you have any appreciation for or curiosity about Southern Cuisine and culture, you have to check out this article by Allison Glock in the July/Aug edition of Garden and Gun: “Sweet Tea: A Love Story.”
Man I wish I had me a glass of that now!
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