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  • on March 11, 2012

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    I made this recipe for Christmas dinner. Iy was an absolute success. Everyone loved it, including me. I followed the recipe exactly as it said and it was so good. I recommend this to everyone. definately a 5star recipe... Thanks Paula Deen

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  • on December 28, 2011

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    As a savannah native I am disappointed that you did not include bacon. This adds to the peas flavor when cooked together and salted.

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  • on October 26, 2011

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    This recipe was quite a disappointment. I am used to PD recipes being flavor-packed and this one was insipid at best. Paula, please revise this recipe to be more flavorful...thanks!!

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  • on January 01, 2011

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    This recipe needs serious help - way too boring.

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  • on January 01, 2011

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    This was so easy and satisfying, the only addition I made was hot sauce . I will be using this recipe again. Thanks Paula

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  • on December 31, 2010

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    I needed some good luck for the new year so I just made this dish. I liked it, but the recipe on the back of the black eyed pea can included bacon, so I did too. It made it a much more tasty dish and pork (on New Year's Eve is considered good luck too!

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  • on May 27, 2010

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    Even if it is good.Even though it?s not New Year?s, I felt like I needed a little luck and was thinking about Hoppin? John. Separated from my own recipes right now, I decided to look online. I have to agree with the reviewer Button, as I was sorely disappointed in this recipe and am also from Savannah. Kathy from Linden, AL. the issue is not about jealousy?it?s about authenticity. I love to try updated or recreated recipes, but this recipe disregards the integrity and history of the dish. And would you be happy if someone came to your home, colonized it and built an ?empire? based on a hyperreality of the culture of which that person claimed to be a part? Didn?t Darth Vader build an ?empire?? And for the record, I do respect Paula Dean?s success but I cannot say that I like the version of my home that she has exported to the rest of the country and the world. Regardless, this is not Hoppin? John. But it might be pretty good rice and beans.

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  • on April 15, 2010

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    Button did not create it. Could it be we are just a tad jealous of the most famous lady in Savannah? Be proud she chose this beautiful town to build her empire!
    You go Paula Dean!

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  • on January 01, 2010

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    If this is the way to make Hoppin' John, why not just cook the peas, cook the rice, serve the peas over rice and chopped onions over the top? It's just as good--especially if you season the peas with hog jowl.

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  • on January 01, 2010

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    I am from Savannah (Paula Deen actually is not, and we eat Hoppin' John every year on New Years. This recipe is not Hoppin' John; it's just rice and beans. The meat is a big part of this recipe and we usually use hog jowl, ham hocks, neckbone, cracklings - smoked fatty meat from the pig (usually not bacon though. I have seen other people in the South use black-eyed peas but here in the lowcountry we use field peas. Black-eyed peas are too starchy for this dish. Hoppin' John is always accompanied with greens. Collards are my favorite, but turnip and mustard greens are good too. I really wish that Paula Deen wouldn't play up the Savannah thing so much, it is very offensive to true Savannahians. I would also like to add that most of her recipes that I have seen are not authentic and are in no way traditional Southern food. We don't talk like her either. Her accent is affected ya'll.

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