Okra with Mustard Sauce

I can still see the stunned expression on the face of one dinner guest from Chicago when Sally was bold enough to serve this okra as a first course at a dinner in Columbia, Missouri. Born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, like me Sally had been thrust into an almost alien academic environment far from home, but, like me, she had no intention of neglecting her culinary roots just to satisfy the timid palates of the uninitiated. The irony is that after a couple of bites of this rather fancy