Taste a more traditional take on things with the shrimp cake over Anson Mills grits, topped with fried tomato and a silky poblano corn cream sauce the finish of jalapeno gastrique is a nice touch.

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They tuck with aplomb into a street-food supper of kushari (a local snack-food staple of pasta, lentils, tomato sauce and fried onions), bought in steaming ladlefuls from a little stall in the capital's old city.

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Around our house, when not infected by the Birdseye plague, real food often meant chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and cream gravy, sugar peas, field peas, black-eyed peas, lima beans, green beans, all greens, ambrosia, okra, corn, tomato aspic, squash casseroles, pot roast, fried fish, chicken and dumplings, hot rolls, biscuits, cornbread, cakes, pies, fudge, divinity and Mama's homemade vegetable soup, which was world famous in our family.

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The restaurant's most popular items are fried chicken, burgers and spaghetti topped with ham and a sweet tomato sauce.

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The Mediterranean diet discouraged soda drinks and the low-fat diet discouraged vegetable oils, nuts, fried snacks, visible fat in meats and soup, fatty fish and tomato sauce.

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