Shanola Hampton Quotes

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.

I'm Southern to the bone.

Grits really are food for the soul.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

You know, I love the South.

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

I'm a black man from the South. I like my food!

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

People come to Nashville where I live and they say, 'What's a great Southern restaurant?' Well, you got to know the right grandmother, because there's a lot of magic to good Southern cooking.

I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.

We're just Southern people.

There are things I like about fancy Southern food and there are things I really love from just down-home Southern cooking. So mixing those two together would probably be right up my alley.

I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.

I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a formal dinner, and if you didn't like it, well then you ate more beans or you went home and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.