The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
Gravy
Gravy dives into bootlegging, clubbing, and a legendary Alabama Black Belt festival: the Footwash in Uniontown.
Gravy
Alabama’s Black Belt has always been a place of migration: the site of both forced and elective movement. Meet three…
The Southern Foodways Alliance drives a more progressive future by leading conversations that challenge existing constructs, shape perspectives, and foster meaningful discussions. We reconsider the past with research, scrutiny, and documentation.
Gravy Podcast
Gravy dives into bootlegging, clubbing, and a legendary Alabama Black Belt festival: the Footwash in Uniontown.
Gravy Podcast
Alabama’s Black Belt has always been a place of migration: the site of both forced and elective movement. Meet three…
Gravy Podcast
A coon hunter and a dove hunter take us into the woods and onto the field to illuminate one of the Alabama Black Belt’s…
Film
A visual Juneteenth poem by Pihakis Foodways Documentary Filmmaker, Zaire Love.
Film
Tahirah Shakir of Sugar Beat, LLC sources, roasts, grinds, and simmers local, organic peanuts into a Southern take on West African peanut stew.
Film
Devon “Vonnie” Smith follows the passage of recipes from one generation to the next in the Black community through his experimental film A Bit of This, A Bit of That.
Oral History
This piping hot oral history project explores Southern Maid's historic relationship to the Louisiana Hayride and the business’s role in developing baking practices and distribution networks within and across the ArkLaTex region.
Oral History
This collection highlights the voices of Southern bakers.
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