Thanks for the link you sent in a later message.  I guess not many North
Carolinians eat poke salet, as I've never seen it here in potluck suppers,
where one usually sees just about every variety of down-home Southern
cooking.

Speaking of regional dishes, I encountered a dish I'd never seen outside of
Philadelphia or New York: fried matzoh.  That's crumbled-up matzoh bread
mixed with eggs and milk and fried in a skillet.  It was OK, I guess, but I
prefer omelettes.

For those who don't know, matzoh bread is a flat, or unleavened Jewish bread
eaten mainly at Passover, but it can be enjoyed year-round.  I eat it a lot
myself, just not as fried matzoh.

Kat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cleveland, Kyle E." <[log in to unmask]>
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To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: Happy Father's Day


> I suppose yankees would say "poke salad", but it's a tender spring green
> from the "pokeberry" plant (Phytolacca Americana) that is indigenous to
the
> southeast US.  You have to be careful, as the mature leaves contain a
strong
> emetic, to the point of being poisonous.  Do a yahoo search on "poke
salet"
> and you'll find some decent recipes.
>
> -Kyle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathy Salkin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 9:57 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Happy Father's Day
>
>
> OK, enlighten me, please.  What's poke salet?
>
> Kat
>
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 09:08:57 -0400 "Cleveland, Kyle E."
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dig that!  My parents have been up watching the kids while Laura went to
> HOuston for a bone marrow biopsy.  Sunday morning breakfast was biscuits
and
> red-eye gravy, scrambled eggs, grits and poke salet (that I'd canned this
> spring).  I get to eat like this about twice/year.  Sure, I could hear my
> arteries slapping shut from all the fat, but it was well worth it!
>
> -KYle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BG Greer, PhD [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 7:10 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Happy Father's Day
>
>
> In a message dated 6/16/02 3:37:08 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> >yes, happy fathers day to you bobby, and all the others. We went out to
> >eat, got the southern cooked veggies that i can get otherwise.
>
> we're having southern breakfast tonight! yum yum!
>
> Bobby