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The Lost Southern Chefs: A History of Commercial Dining in the Nineteenth-Century South Freda Deknight her biscuits and pimento cheeseAuthor: Robert F. Moss In recent years, food writers and historians have begun to retell the story of southern food. Heirloom ingredients and traditional recipes have been rediscovered, the foundational role that African Americans played in the evolution of southern cuisine is coming to be recognized, and writers are finally clearing away the cobwebs of romantic myth that have long distorted the picture. The story of southern dining, however, remains