Tiffany Derry

“Now I feel like people do first start taking pictures, you know? And I'm like, 'This is for us to eat.'”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry remarked that people now take photos of food first before eating it while discussing changing tailgating culture.

“People don't really understand where food comes from.”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry said foods commonly associated with Southern cooking today don't tell the entire story.

“It wasn't this farm-to-table thing. It was what you did,”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry said eating from the farm was routine long before farm-to-table became a restaurant buzzword.

“such a very small amount of the cooking”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry said heavier dishes represented a very small amount of traditional Southern cooking and weren't everyday foods.

“So many of their parents didn't really cook,”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry said some younger cooks' parents didn't really cook, so they learned on their own.

“Before, people weren't taking pictures of it. They were just eating it,”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry said tailgating food has evolved and people now take pictures of their spreads before eating.

“It's important to not just tell the story of the country cooking where we talk about mac and cheese and we talk about biscuits and biscuits and gravy,”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry said it's important not to limit the story of Southern cooking to heavier dishes like mac and cheese and biscuits and gravy.

“People are back making bread.”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry noted that younger generations are embracing bread-making at home.

“I think a lot of times that criticism comes from folks who don't actually understand the South,”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry told Fox News Digital that criticism of Southern food as heavy and unhealthy comes from people who don't understand the South.

“just didn't really know how to cook.”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry recalled a period when Americans were cooking less and some people just didn't really know how to cook.

“I ate from the farm very much.”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry said she ate from the farm growing up, referencing her family's Louisiana roots.

“I love the fact that people are interested in sourdough. Like, are you kidding me?”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry expressed enthusiasm that younger generations are showing renewed interest in cooking at home, including sourdough bread-making.

“And so they learned on their own, and they learned through watching and through chefs and TV and reading books and magazines and all of that.”

Tiffany Derry · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Derry said younger cooks learned through watching, chefs, TV, books, and magazines after their parents didn't cook.