SFA Board of Directors
Angie Mosier, SFA Board President, is a freelance food stylist and also does a bit of food writing. She is a native of Atlanta, Georgia and is proud to spend time working with organizations like Georgia Organics, Les Dames d'Escoffier and the High Museum of Art linking food, drink and culture. Angie lives in the historic Grant Park area of Atlanta with her very talented, guitar-playing husband, Johnny Mosier.
Linton Hopkins, SFA Board Vice-President, is chef and co owner, with his wife Gina, of Restaurant Eugene and Holeman & Finch Public House in Atlanta. A native of Atlanta, he is a graduate of Emory University and the Culinary Institute of America. He co-founded the Peachtree Road Farmer’s Market in Atlanta, as well as the first organic garden in a public elementary school in Georgia. He has a passion for local farming, pickling, preserving, and anything to do with pork and salt.
Brett Anderson is the restaurant critic and a feature writer at the New Orleans Times-Picayune. His writing has appeared in Gourmet, the Washington Post, Oxford American, Food & Wine, and Salon. His work has also been published in five editions of Best Food Writing and three of Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing. He's won ten writing awards from the Association of Food Journalists and a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for newspaper feature writing.
Bill Andrews, a graduate of the University of Mississippi, and a disciple of tailgating in the Grove, serves as Director of Marketing Communications for Viking Range Corporation. A former banker who traded a career in debits and credits for the love of oil and vinegar, Bill is married to Lisa Marshall, formerly of Mason, Tennessee, home to Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken.
Ann Cashion, a native of Jackson, Mississippi, is a graduate of Harvard University. She completed two years at Stanford University toward her doctorate in literature before leaving to cook professionally. She served as executive chef at a number of Washington, D.C. restaurants before opening Cashion’s Eat Place in D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood. Now, along with partner Johnny Fulchino, she owns and operates Johnny’s Half Shell, also in D.C.
John Currence, a native of New Orleans, began cooking in the mid 1980s in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, under the tutelage of Bill Neal at Crooks Corner. In 1992, John opened City Grocery, on the Square in Oxford, Mississippi. In succeeding years Currence has opened a scree of other restaurants, including Bouré, Big Bad Breakfast, and Snackbar. In 2009, he was awarded Best Chef: South from the James Beard Foundation. He’s helped found Oxford’s farmers’ market, and he is past president of the Mississippi Restaurant Association and Oxford’s local arts council. During the 18 months following Hurricane Katrina, John led the rebuilding of Willie Mae's Scotch House in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans.
Lolis Elie, a native of New Orleans, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, and Columbia University. He was one of the 50 founders of the SFA. A columnist for the Times-Picayune, Elie is the author of Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country. He edited Cornbread Nation Two: The United States of Barbecue.
Makalé Faber-Cullen was raised in Alexandria, Virginia. Navigating her family's immigrant life ignited her career as a cultural anthropologist, and for close to 15 years she's been documenting and promoting the artistry and foodways of the newest Americans. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from George Mason University and her M.A. from the University of Virginia, where she was a Commonwealth Fellow for doctoral studies in Anthropology. She teaches at Kingsborough Community College and conducts market research for sustainable businesses.
Ted Lee grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, graduated from Amherst College, and received an MFA in fiction writing from the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. In 1994, he founded the Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalogue, a mail-order source for Southern pantry staples, with his brother and writing partner, Matt Lee. The Lee Brothers write about food for newspapers and magazines, and in 2007 published their award-winning first cookbook, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook. Ted and his wife, the artist E.V. Day, live in Brooklyn, New York, and Charleston, South Carolina.
Ted Ownby is director for the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. He holds a joint appointment in History and Southern Studies. He earned his B.A. from Vanderbilt University, and an M.A. and doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998 and Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 . He is the coeditor of the Mississippi Encyclopedia and writes and teaches classes on the social and cultural history of the American South.
Audrey Petty is an associate professor of English at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champagne. Her work has appeared in the journals Callaloo and the Massachusetts Review. She presented her essay, "Late Night Chitlins with Momma" at the 2004 Southern Foodways Symposium. In 2005, Saveur published an adaptation of that essay, and it has been anthologized three times since, most recently in Cornbread Nation 4.
Mike “Rathead” Riley is a graduate of Washington and Lee University. He lives in Bristol, Virginia and works – as a financial services consultant – in Bristol, Tennessee. Riley is an avid culinary enthusiast who works on the steering committee for his local farmers market. He has extensive experience in nonprofit stewardship, having served on orchestra, theatre, and school boards.
Sara Roahen, a Wisconsin native, graduated from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For the next six years she applied her liberal arts degree as a line cook in restaurants across Wisconsin, California, and Wyoming. In 2000, she migrated to New Orleans, where she reviewed restaurants for Gambit, the weekly newspaper. Her New Orleans food studies eventually lead her to write a book: Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, published by W.W. Norton for Mardi Gras 2008.