Southerners love a good meal as much as they love a good story, and sitting down with
food historian John T. Edge's The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South is like sitting down to a bountiful Sunday Southern dinner.
Being attentive to detail, as behooves careful
historians, we notice that the testimony is confusing and even inconsistent: the post-resurrection Jesus appears and vanishes like a spirit (Luke 24:31, 36 - 7;
John 20:26), yet he can eat solid
food (Luke 24:43); he can be touched (Matthew 28:9), and he can not be touched (
John 20:17); it was indeed Jesus, but they do not recognize him at first (Luke 24:15 f;
John 20:14, 21:4).