Bacon Grease

Yes, it's true.  So?  Have you tried it?  It's normal.  Why wouldn't you season your food with bacon grease?  These are all phrases that have come out of my mouth when defending my choice to season my food with bacon grease.  This is a normal thing to do, isn't it?  I never questioned it in my whole life until all these cooking shows came on T.V.  I don't care if some frou-frou chef from New England doesn't do it, I don't trust you anyway with your chutney and escargot!  Not healthy to put bacon grease in green beans?  I don't do it for the heath factor, it's all about taste.  The beans are healthy enough! If you want me to eat them then they gotta taste good!  

My first cook book was the Betty Crocker cook book.  You know the one, with the red and white tablecloth pattern?  Yeah, not much in there for me, I'm afraid.  It doesn't tell me how to cook my grandma's fried chicken or her fabulous cornbread.  Nothing in there tastes as good as any food I grew up on.  I'm just sayin'....  Speaking of grandmas....both of mine ate grease infused and fried food 3 meals a day every day of their 91 years of life.  Both died peacefully in their sleep of old age. Surely dreaming of their next fried pie.

So, before all you health nuts want to talk about how horribly unhealthy our southern food is, come down here and let me cook ya up some fried chicken, skillet-corn, greens and black-eyed peas seasoned with fatback.  I'll even make ya some cornbread (cracklin' cornbread, if you're lucky).  You can bring the chutney.