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    Work with What You’ve Got

    Aug 24, 2021 5 minutes
    STORY AND RECIPES BY BRENDA GANTT

    GROWING UP, my daddy worked two jobs just to provide for our family. He worked all day at our family’s filling station and then he would come home, eat supper, and sleep a couple of hours before he worked the night shift at the Hunt Refining Company in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Before we moved to Tuscaloosa, we lived in Pickens County, Alabama. Daddy was a farmer in Pickens County. To say that we were poor when we lived in Pickens County would be an understatement.

    Mama did her best to cook what Daddy grew. Daddy did his best to grow enough to provide for us. Despite their best efforts, sometimes we had a lot of beans and potatoes and rice because they were all cheap foods to prepare. And just because we moved to Tuscaloosa

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