"Everybody has one in their collection You know one of those old spiral or plastic tooth bound cookbooks sold to support a high school marching band a church or the local chapter of the Junior League These recipe collections reflect with unimpeachable authenticity the dishes that define communities chicken and dumplings macaroni and cheese chess pie When the Southern Foodways Alliance began curating a cookbook it was to these spiral boun ..."
"The South’s relationship with drinking is complicated. Although religious and legal mandates discourage the sale and consumption of alcohol, the region has a robust drinking culture. As the home of NASCAR, a sport that arose from the high-speed antics of bootleggers, and Tennessee Williams, a man notorious for both his literary genius and his propensity to imbibe, the Bible Belt has a booze-soaked background. In the recipes and essays i ..."
"The sixteen essays in "The Larder" argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper understanding of our overlapping, historically situated, and evolving cultures and societies. "The Larder" presents some of the most in ..."
"How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and of traditions that form identities of m ..."
Creole Italian Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture (Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Ser.) by Justin A. Nystrom, John T. Edge, SaraCampMilam Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5355-5, ISBN: 0-8203-5355-8
"In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s and along their path until the 1970s. Each chapter touches on events that involved Sicilian immigrants and the relevancy of their lives and impact on New Orleans. Sicilian immigrants cut sugarcane, sold groce ..."
Recipes for Respect African American Meals and Meaning (Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Ser.) by Professor Rafia Zafar, John T. Edge, SaraCampMilam Paperback, 148 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5367-8, ISBN: 0-8203-5367-1
"Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. Recipes for Respect bridges this gap, illuminating the role of foodways in African American culture as well as the contributions of Black cooks and chefs to what has been considered the ..."
"Craig Claiborne, world traveler, iconic New York Times food writer, and author of more than twenty cookbooks, was always a southerner at heart. This is the only one of Claiborneâs cookbooks to focus exclusively on the South. It was, he readily admitted, his most personal book.As John T. Edge and Georgeanna Milam note in their foreword, Claiborne, a native of the Mississippi Delta, had a love of southern food that ran deep and wide, sp ..."
"The sixteen essays in "The Larder" argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper understanding of our overlapping, historically situated, and evolving cultures and societies. "The Larder" presents some of the most in ..."
"The hungrily awaited sixth volume in the Cornbread Nation series tells the story of the American South--circa now--through the prism of its food and the people who grow, make, serve, and eat it. The modern South serves up a groaning board of international cuisines virtually unknown to previous generations of Southerners, notes Brett Anderson in his introduction. Southern food, like the increasingly globalized South, shows an open and co ..."
"The fifth volume in this popular series from the Southern Foodways Alliance spans the food cultures of the South Cornbread Nation 5 lovingly edited by accomplished food writer Fred W Sauceman celebrates food and the ways in which it forges unexpected relationships between people and places In this collection of more than seventy essays and poems we read about the food that provides nourishment as well as a sense of community and shared ..."
Recipes for Respect African American Meals and Meaning (Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Ser.) by Professor Rafia Zafar, John T. Edge, SaraCampMilam Hardcover, 148 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5366-1, ISBN: 0-8203-5366-3
"Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. Recipes for Respect bridges this gap, illuminating the role of foodways in African American culture as well as the contributions of Black cooks and chefs to what has been considered the ..."
Creole Italian Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture (Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Ser.) by Justin A. Nystrom, John T. Edge, SaraCampMilam Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5356-2, ISBN: 0-8203-5356-6
"In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s and along their path until the 1970s. Each chapter touches on events that involved Sicilian immigrants and the relevancy of their lives and impact on New Orleans. Sicilian immigrants cut sugarcane, sold groce ..."
"Craig Claiborne, world traveler, iconic "New York Times" food writer, and author of more than twenty cookbooks, was always a southerner at heart. This is the only one of Claiborne s cookbooks to focus exclusively on the South. It was, he readily admitted, his most personal book.As John T. Edge and Georgeanna Milam note in their foreword, Claiborne, a native of the Mississippi Delta, had a love of southern food that ran deep and wide, sp ..."
"Poetry from Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Marlanda Dekine speak to place and identity. Finally, bartenders and chefs share recipes from the 2021 Fall Southern Foodways Symposium to sustain us in the new year."
To Live and Dine in Dixie The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South (Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Ser.) by Angela Jill Cooley, John T. Edge, SaraCampMilam Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4759-2, ISBN: 0-8203-4759-0
"This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of racial segregation in public eating places. Focusing primarily on the 1900s to the 1960s, Angela Jill Cooley identifies the cultural differences between activists who saw public eating places like urban lunch counters as sites of political p ..."
Hog Meat and Hoecake(Reprint) Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860 (Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Ser.) by Sam Bowers Hilliard, James C. Cobb, John T. Edge, SaraCampMilam Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4676-2, ISBN: 0-8203-4676-4
"When historical geographer Sam B. Hilliard's book Hog Meat and Hoecake was published in 1972, it was ahead of its time. It was one of the first scholarly examinations of the important role food played in a region's history, culture, and politics, and it has since become a landmark of foodways scholarship. In the book Hilliard examines the food supply, dietary habits, and agricultural choices of the antebellum American South, including ..."
"This new collection in the Southern Foodways Alliance's popular series serves up a fifty-three-course celebration of southern foods, southern cooking, and the people and traditions behind them. Editors Dale Volberg Reed and John Shelton Reed have combed magazines, newspapers, books, and journals to bring us a "best of" gathering that is certain to satisfy everyone from omnivorous chowhounds to the most discerning student of regional foo ..."
"The Spring 2023 issue of Gravy kicks off SFA's exploration of the year's theme, asking: Where is the South? How do we identify its edges? Can we mark its coordinates with bourbon, catfish, and birria?"
"Deesha Philyaw remembers family crab boils from her childhood in Jacksonville. Geographer Catarina Passidomo shows that teaching history means teaching uncomfortable truths, even when studying tomatoes."
"From sliced beef brisket to pulled pork, from tacos to fire-roasted vegetables, barbecue speaks to the past, present, and future of the South and to the stories of pitmasters--the places they work, the smoke they conjure, and the sauces ..."