Before the Buzz: Lawshea’s in Columbus serves up plenty of what makes soul food great

Bernard Lawshea remembers the time a former business partner insisted on adding peas to the potato salad.

“After I found out he wasn’t joking, I said, ‘OK, let’s put this theory to the test,'” he said from a booth at his Northland restaurant and carryout.

The result of that peas-in-potato-salad experiment: Customers of Lawshea’s Southern Fish & Ribs promptly picked out — or spit out — the peas…

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