Ahaha I can totally sympathize with those sudden cravings for home food.
Honestly, Southern food is as exotic and "international" up north as any another non-regional cuisine if not more so. In Seattle people are really used to Vietnamese, Thai, and Korean/Japanese that it's less exotic than Cajun/Creole/Appalachian cuisine. I've asked locals where I could find gumbo and was met with blank stares. The only place I managed to find gumbo was a German restaurant specializing in beer. (Internet's suggesting I visit a Caribbean place instead.)
I did notice that buttermilk biscuits, peach cobbler, and country fried steak can usually be found in mom and pop restaurants.
Another side note regarding cuisine: my friend's family is from the South and thought my family was completely nuts for eating catfish raw. Apparently the only proper way to prepare catfish is to fry the heck out of it. :P
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Date: 14 Jan 2011 02:56 am (UTC)Honestly, Southern food is as exotic and "international" up north as any another non-regional cuisine if not more so. In Seattle people are really used to Vietnamese, Thai, and Korean/Japanese that it's less exotic than Cajun/Creole/Appalachian cuisine. I've asked locals where I could find gumbo and was met with blank stares. The only place I managed to find gumbo was a German restaurant specializing in beer. (Internet's suggesting I visit a Caribbean place instead.)
I did notice that buttermilk biscuits, peach cobbler, and country fried steak can usually be found in mom and pop restaurants.
Another side note regarding cuisine: my friend's family is from the South and thought my family was completely nuts for eating catfish raw. Apparently the only proper way to prepare catfish is to fry the heck out of it. :P