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SIDE ORDERS is celebrated food writer John Egertons affectionate tribute to the "forever food" of Southern history: country ham and skillet-fried chicken grits and black-eyed peas cornbread and biscuits pecan pie and blackberry cobbler plus scores of other classic dishes and drinks. He has gathered recipes and anecdotes that range from the sea-level Cajun and Creole quarters of Louisiana to the mountain precints of the Ozarks and Appalachia and from the ethnic ports of Florida to the landlocked country and soul-food enclaves of the Southern heartland.