Documenting, studying, and celebrating the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
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INTERVIEWS
Cotton
Row Club
Crystal
Grill 1
Crystal
Grill 2
Giardina's
Johnny
Bell
Lusco's
Mabel
Gelman
Mattie's
Reno's Cafe
Spooney's
Bar-Be-Que
Interviews and photographs by Amy Evans Streeter.
This project funded in part by a grant from Viking Range Corporation.
Greenwood Restaurants
The Mississippi Delta has inspired writers, artists, and musicians. And cooks. Don't forget the cooks. Spend time winding along the back roads and you'll uncover culinary jewels: roadside hot tamale stands, Greek-owned cafés that specialize in fried quail, barbecue joints that stake their reputation on ribs, and filling stations that sell slices of sweet potato pie baked by somebody's grandmother.
Over a plate of ribs and sauce, Delta folks will tell you stories. Stories about Highway 61, the Civil Rights Movement, King Cotton, writer Walker Percy or bluesman Robert Johnson. Stories that you would never have learned if you had not sat down to eat.
