The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
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Cookbooks cannot right wrongs, but they can highlight a community’s ambitions and project its unified beliefs.
Some cookbooks make me want to cook. Lafcadio Hearn’s made me want to get into a fight.
This year, writers and documentarians asked tough questions of themselves and of their audiences. Read SFA's…
"As soon as I tasted Frank’s cornbread madeleines, I knew one day I was going to put them on my menu."
The array of voices here have challenged and refreshed us, both for the wit and style they employ and for the weight of…
Interview
ELIZABETH WILLIAMS * FINALIST * My grandmother came from Sicily. She grew up with a certain palette of flavors. After…
Gumbo recipes vary from place to place, person to person. Across the South, no two people make gumbo alike. Chefs have…
When SFA oral historian Amy C. Evans conducted interviews with the members and friends of the Carter family that are…
Laura Hester is the former owner of Red Gingham Gourmet in Florence, Alabama.