Now, she says, this African-American Southern food staple is everywhere -- and served thinly sliced and fried as a bite-sized hors d'oeuvre or soup garnish.
Willie had recently moved to Angela's hometown of Beaumont, Texas -- a city so enamored with fried food and lazy summer days that it was named the fifth most obese city in the nation in 2012.
Around our house, when not infected by the Birdseye plague, real food often meant chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and cream gravy, sugar peas, field peas, black-eyed peas, lima beans, green beans, all greens, ambrosia, okra, corn, tomato aspic, squash casseroles, pot roast, fried fish, chicken and dumplings, hot rolls, biscuits, cornbread, cakes, pies, fudge, divinity and Mama's homemade vegetable soup, which was world famous in our family.
Both of us were sick of on-the-road fast food, so we got packaged salads, pretzels and juice -- not exactly the fried Southern fare you see in most restaurants around here.
"Milanese" literally, in the style of Milan, where this dish originates is the Italian term for food that is breaded and shallow-fried.
Dr. HOWARD: When you go to McDonald's or any fast food restaurant now, things are all fried in non-lard, they're not animal fats.
In the morning, at his favorite restaurant, Erick got to order his favorite American food, sausage and eggs and hash-brown papitas fried crunchy on top.
They tuck with aplomb into a street-food supper of kushari (a local snack-food staple of pasta, lentils, tomato sauce and fried onions), bought in steaming ladlefuls from a little stall in the capital's old city.
Some churches even declared "no-fry" zones for their congregations, where only healthy food and nothing fried was allowed.
Downstairs is a fine-dining restaurant that not only serves great Cantonese food (try the signature fried fresh lobster with scallion and shallots), but also provides the setting for the exhibition, A Taste of the Masters: Paintings from the M K Lau Collection (running until late 2013).
Mumbaikars of all stripes eat very well, from the panipuri (fried savoury snacks) sold in khau gullies (lanes filled with food stalls) to the world-class cuisine at five-star restaurants.
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