The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
Gravy
Rosalind Bentley, the reporter of last week's podcast episode, found some extra Gravy for us: newsreel footage from…
Will Campbell counseled and supported Freedom Riders in the sixties, ministered to imprisoned Klansmen in the…
On weeknights, Lannie's Bar-B-Q Spot is one of the few non-chain businesses near downtown Selma where locals can grab a…
Mahalia Jackson entered into respectability through the shaming kitchen door, kicking the door down as she stepped.
Ed Scott formed a cooperative in 1971 in the area of Leflore County, Mississippi, known as Brooks Farm. The hope was…
The Georgia peach is an icon, serving as shorthand for Southern beauty, hospitality, sweetness, and agrarian identity.…
Alice Randall dissects the politics, race, business, and religion embodied by Mahalia Jackson's Fried Chicken.
There’s a reason that the lunch counter sit-ins of the early 1960s attained that rare distinction of being both…
Paul Fehribach, the chef and co-owner of the restaurant Big Jones in Chicago, wrote me a letter after returning home…