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The Whole Okra)
The Whole Okra)
In this excerpt from the James Beard-winning book
The Whole Okra, chef and author Chris Smith tells us how he first fell in love with the Southern crop.
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Chelsea Green Publishing
In 2006, at the tender age of 26 (not yet woody), I experienced okra for the first time. I was at a roadside greasy spoon somewhere east of Clayton, Georgia. It was my first time in the United States, visiting an old friend, Snowy, from Wales. Snowy had been living and working in Greenville, South Carolina, for about five years. Practically a local, he pushed a bowl of fried okra toward me.