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

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Electric Tofu

August 15, 2019

In the early 1970s, two hundred hippies from San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood resettled in rural Tennessee.

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From Fillmore With Love

August 13, 2019

More than anything, Fernay wanted to cook for her neighborhood.

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Electric Tofu

In the early 1970s, two hundred hippies from San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood resettled in rural Tennessee.

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From Fillmore With Love

More than anything, Fernay wanted to cook for her neighborhood.

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Biscuit Blues

King Biscuit Time sold flour—and the Delta blues. 

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Gravy 71 (Spring 2019)

Spring 2019

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Hair, Food, and Hustle

Atlanta is the capital of black hair. It’s also the locus of a robust network of home cooks serving those doing hair…

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2019 Documentary Workshop Films

We are pleased to share the films from the 2019 SFA Documentary Film Workshop.

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Nueva Orleans

Mexican culture is now as much a part of New Orleans as the Saints and Louis Prima.

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Recipes from a Hungry Man

Some cookbooks make me want to cook. Lafcadio Hearn’s made me want to get into a fight.

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SFA’s 20th Anniversary Celebration

To mark our twentieth anniversary, SFA has commissioned an ongoing series of short founder films and completed an oral…

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An Interview with Ava Lowrey

Ava Lowrey is SFA's Pihakis Documentary Filmmaker.

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An Interview with Annemarie Anderson

Annemarie Anderson is SFA's Oral Historian.

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At The Back Door

Beginning in the year of his death, white Mississippians co-opted the Blind Jim story to further the segregation of…

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Read Between the Lines

Menus begin with the expressed intentions of the people who cook and sell you food, then turn to you to fill in the…

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We Eat, Therefore We Yam

The 2018 Southern Foodways Symposium revealed how the sometimes-unwieldy interdisciplinary field of Southern Studies, a…

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Gravy 70 (Winter 2019)

Winter 2019

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Meet Our Summer Film Interns

For two months each summer, paid interns work directly under the guidance and mentorship of SFA’s Pihakis Foodways…

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Thrive: Documenting the DNA of the Southern Foodways Alliance

"Since that first gathering two decades ago, the Southern Foodways Alliance has become a powerful force at the…

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Get to Know Northwest Arkansas

These northwest Arkansas restaurants merit your full attention--and a big appetite.

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