Many Southerners can trace ancestries from the mountains to the shore all under the Mason-Dixon line, and we have a special knack for embracing both newly sprouted and deeply rooted culinary lineages. In this dish, executive chef Jeff Carter of Dancing Bear Lodge and Appalachian Bistro in Townsend, Tennessee, brings the sunny Gulf Coast, where he was born and raised, and the highlands of Appalachia, where he practices his craft, to the table…