Apropos of Southern beverages broadly, the Southern Food & Beverage Museum in New Orleans (new organization, no permanent home yet, great acronym SOFAB) opened on June 12th an exhibit called "A Toast of New Orleans." Pasted article below ~ More specifically, one of my customers recently brought to me a six-pack of Cheerwine. I'm a fiend for the stuff and mentioned it casually some months back. I didn't have the heart to tell him that it had all gone flat (a vexingly common defect of the plastic bottles, but not of the cans or glass bottled versions). What a let-down. Until I remembered a technique I've yet to try: green ham simmered in a Coke-based broth. I suspect a Cheerwine variant is hitting a table near me sometime this weekend... Oh, and that's not some Dr. Seuss green ham; that was my mother's term for fresh hams, uncooked, uncured and un-countrified. Matt Edit by Jason Perlow - no cutting and pasting of copyrighted articles on the site, please follow our fair use practices, thanks.
