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Cracker cooking is Florida's rough-and-tumble variation on Southern cuisine, but with
more reptiles and amphibians. And you'll find a good deal of Cajun and Creole as well,
which mix in spicy gumbos and bisques from Louisiana's neighboring swamps. These
days, Southern food isn't confined to North Florida. Fancy variations on the theme - haute
Southern, if you will - are all the rage from Jacksonville to Key West.
Southern Floridian cooking is epitomized by writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' famous
cookbook
Cross Creek Cookery.
Near Rawlings' former home, the
Yearling Restaurant
is a
good place to try Southern Floridian (ie North Florida) food.
Iced tea is so ubiquitous it's called the 'wine of the South,' but watch out for 'sweet tea,'
which is an almost entirely different Southern drink - tea so sugary your eyes will cross.
You may want to specify that your tea come unsweetened if you don't fancy a trip to the
dentist.
