You Need This Mississippi Pot Roast in Your Life — Delicious Links

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Perhaps the most dubious thing about Mississippi pot roast is how it came to be called that in the first place. The investigative food journalists over at the New York Times identified the creator as Robin Chapman of Ripley, Mississippi — which is logical enough. The thing is, Chapman never called her roast "Mississippi roast" and still doesn't to this day. She simply calls it "roast." Somehow, as variations of Chapman's recipe took off in the blogosphere, it took on an identity of its own.

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