Hello everyone!
I am enjoying all of the discussion on this and couldn't help but adding
Oklahoma to the mix.
Although it is true that the strawberry is Oklahoma's official fruit, we
would not consider it our official food. Instead, we have an official
meal--chicken fried steak, cornbread, barbecued pork, sausage, biscuits
and gravy, fried okra, squash, grits, corn, black-eyed peas, and pecan
pie. All of this can be served with watermelon, our official state
vegetable, and washed down with milk, our official state beverage.
No wonder I have to keep doing to the gym every day...
All best,
David
David Pettyjohn
Assistant Director
Oklahoma Humanities Council
428 W. California, Ste. 270
Oklahoma City, OK 73102
voice: (405) 235-0280
fax: (405) 235-0289
-----Original Message-----
From: Museum on Main Street [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Davis, Robbie
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:48 AM
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Subject: Re: Help for Key Ingredients
Bucky,
Here's the deal with the scuppernong -- a wild grape in the Southeast.
(We always referred to "muscadine vines" where I grew up in central
South Carolina. I picked them when I was a kid, along with wild
blackberries, in the woods behind my neighborhood.)
http://southernfood.about.com/library/weekly/aa091998.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuppernong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscadine
Thanks,
RD
-----Original Message-----
From: Museum on Main Street [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Bucky Halker
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:13 AM
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Subject: Re: Help for Key Ingredients
Jennifer: Robbie answered my question regarding the "kuchen" in So.
Dakota, which seems to be a derivative of German strudel with apples.
Now I have to ask about the scuppernong, since there is a place I hike
in So.
Wisconsin called scuppernong. I'm assuming it's an Indian name. Any
comment?
Bucky Halker (Chicago)
www.buckyhalker.com
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:59:46 -0700, Jennifer McCollum
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Robbie:
>
> I want to know how Pennsylvania lucked out and got the chocolate chip
> cookie as its official food. Somehow that doesn't seem fair and may
indeed
> start a food fight. But at least NC has the scuppernong to make vino!
>
> Best, Jenn
>
> Jennifer McCollum, Ph.D.
> Communications Officer
> North Carolina Humanities Council
> 122 N. Elm St., Suite 601
> Greensboro, N.C. 27401
> (336) 334-5704
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> www.nchumanities.org
>
>
>
> MANY STORIES, ONE PEOPLE
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museum on Main Street [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Davis, Robbie
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:23 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Help for Key Ingredients
>
> Everyone,
>
> As most of you know, we are preparing a revised version of Key
Ingredients
> for an extension tour beginning in 2010. As part of that work, we're
> planning to put in a graphic element showing the official or best
> known foodstuff for an individual state (and territory if you have
> it). We have researched official foods and only 33 states have an
> official food. Some have many. We can included one foodstuff per
state.
>
> We'd love to have your input as we prepare this list. Here is what we
have
> so far:
>
> Alabama: blackberry (official)
> Arkansas: South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato (official)
> Florida: orange (official)
> Georgia: Vidalia onion (official)
> Idaho: potato (official)
> Illinois: apple (official)
> Kentucky: blackberry (official)
> Louisiana: sweet potato (official)
> Maine: wild blueberry
> Maryland: blue crabs
> Massachusetts: cranberry
> Minnesota: morel mushroom
> Missouri: Norton Cynthiana grape
> New Hampshire: pumpkin
> New Jersey: Jersey tomato
> New Mexico: chiles
> New York: apple
> North Carolina: scuppernong grape
> North Dakota: chokecherry
> Oklahoma: strawberry
> Oregon: pear
> Pennsylvania: chocolate chip cookie
> Rhode Island: Rhode Island greening apple South Carolina: peach South
> Dakota: kuchen
> Tennessee: tomato
> Texas: jalapeno pepper
> Utah: sugar beet
> Vermont: apple
> Washington: apple
> West Virginia: Golden Delicious apple
> Wisconsin: cranberry
>
> If your state is not listed here, please let me know what top crop
> your citizens would be most likely to call their own. If your state is
> here
and
> you disagree with the selection, let me know. In each of these cases,
> the item we selected is a designated state symbol. Because the graphic
> will appear in a section of the exhibition that discusses crops and
ingredients,
> please avoid suggesting any prepared dishes. (We realize that we
> violated that convention for both Pennsylvania and South Dakota. A
> prepared food
is
> the only one with an official designation and we do not want to leave
> out any state.)
>
> Please reply to me off the list at [log in to unmask] by Friday, June 11.
And,
> no food fights! :-)
>
> Best wishes,
> Robbie
>
> Robbie Davis
> Project Director, Museum on Main Street (MoMS) Smithsonian Institution
> Traveling Exhibition Service P.O. Box 37012 MRC 941 Washington, DC
> 20013-7012 [log in to unmask]
> 202-633-5335
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