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expertise that was lost during the civil war. anthony: a lot of the southern revival, the whole turnaround started with this guy, glenn roberts. a man who asked a simple question how come grits aren t as good as they used to be? and by starting the heirloom grain company anson mills, decided to do something about it. so why do this? why does something as unwanted, meaning nobody was particularly crying out, you know what we need? we need rice that used to taste like it did in 1837. we need grits, better grits. what called to you that you felt compelled to answer? glenn: i m a cuisine whore, you know? i think that culture is interactive with cuisine, as soon as you look at cuisine, you re looking at politics. you re looking at medicine. you re looking at the advanced thinking. anthony: i ll agree with you that there is nothing more political than food. glenn: you got it.
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we like our food heavily salted. just add water and two of your own fresh eggs. because of industries, innovations and farm chemicals and machinery. taste it! anthony: how did it happen that we ended up with southern food being the most, sort of, cruelly hijacked into this cartoonish, uh, parody of itself? modern, clean, advanced, complete meat processing. glenn: i think it s a combination of two massive cultural influences that came together at the same time. the idea of industrialization came late to the south. when it hit we got pellagra. the first nutrition laws in america were written in south carolina because everybody moved into mill villages and immediately started eating processed food because they weren t growing their food anymore. the second thing that happened is there was a massive amount of
gravy, which is the most classic way, and on top crispy pig ears. anthony: you get grannies coming and saying, i haven t tasted this since i was a little kid. sean: yeah, exactly, man. anthony: wow, that s good. sean: mm. sean: we were trying to replicate the emotion of southern, that southern food provides you in a time where good ingredients weren t available, so we made up for tasteless ingredients by frying them or dumping butter on them. anthony: right. sean: now we don t have to.