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Dec. 9, 2019
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Gravy

Gravy is our journal and podcast duo of original narratives that are fresh, unexpected, and thought-provoking.

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Mahalia Jackson’s Glori-Fried Chicken

September 5, 2019

Gospel star Mahalia Jackson used fried chicken to push for economic empowerment in the black community.

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Wisdom of the White Sauce

November 12, 2019

The South is changing in ways that we don’t often appreciate, or even notice.

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Wisdom of the White Sauce

The South is changing in ways that we don’t often appreciate, or even notice.

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The Best that We’ve Got

As the new residents come, where do the old neighbors go? What is lost when they depart?

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Beholden

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What’s for Dinner?

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Staking the Big Tent

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Biscuits that Never Were

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One More for the Road

For years, change couldn’t find Camden County. Then it couldn’t be stopped.

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The Chanterelle Seeker

Everybody knows Ancil Jacques as Swampy Appleseed, the mushroom guy. Except it’s not really mushrooms he’s after.

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Gravy 72 (Summer 2019)

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Reporting the Work of Food

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The Festival Industrial Complex

Hanna Raskin tallies the hidden costs of participating in festivals that expect hospitality professionals to work for…

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Glory in a Can

For Glory Foods, the textures and flavors that made homemade greens shine weren’t so easy to package.

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I Was Raised by a Single Mother

My grandmother, stepmother, aunt, and stepsister all raised their children alone. Every one of them pulled it off by…

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Alexis Meza de los Santos, Southerner

The people of el Sur Latino lead vibrant lives in a region our ancestors never expected to live in.

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The Year That Changed the South

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Cutting Time

All that remains now of the place called Hard Times are the stories of the people who lived and worked and died there.

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