I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.