"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 first volume in what will be an annual collection, Cornbread Nation gathers the best of recent Southern food writing. In fifty-one entries--original features and selections previously published in magazines and journals--contributors celebrate the people, places, traditions, and tastes of the American South. In these pages, Nikki Giovanni expresses her admiration for the legendary Edna Lewis, James Villas remembers his friend Craig ..."
"In her first new work published in nearly a decade, farmer-turned-novelist Dori Sanders looks back at the struggles and triumphs of her own family's story. The farm where she grew up in Filbert, South Carolina, profoundly shaped the writer Sanders was to become. "Because the former slaves could buy the land with only a small down payment and the promise to pay the rest of the money owed, the rural farming community came to be called 'P ..."
"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 thes ..."
"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 ..."
Cornbread Nation 3(1st Edition) Foods of the Mountain South (Cornbread Nation: Best of Southern Food Writing) by Ronni Lundy, SouthernFoodwaysAlliance Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2005 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5656-7, ISBN: 0-8078-5656-8
"Focusses on the connections through food in Appalachia and beyond. The stories, poems, and essays gathered in "Cornbread Nation 3: Foods of the Mountain South" were born along the winding roads of Appalachia, in the vales of the Ozarks, and in the flatlands beyond, where mountain people traveled in the hillbilly diaspora. Here, wisdom is gleaned in coal-mining camps, at roadside vegetable stands, at dinners on church grounds, and on sha ..."