You roll okra in the same cornmeal you later use for cornbread. We season it up, use peppers and onions. It's just right. No one ever wrote a catchy song about New England lobster. Just try finding a rhapsody about New York strip steak.
Price claims that soul food is a growing business in Dallas.
Smokey John's pulls in 300 to 350 people per day. What makes it so successful today is that we don't have to use scraps. We buy high-quality cuts and season it in the old way. So put your misplaced pride in the Confederate flag and the supposed glories of Southern heritage aside. Soul food is the final monument to Dixie, a living memorial to the culinary genius of poor Southerners, black and white.