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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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Vinegar & Char

November 15, 2018

Vinegar & Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance, edited by poet Sandra Beasley, is SFA's latest book,…

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La Victoria: 21st Century Corridistas

September 29, 2018

LA VICTORIA 21st Century Corridistas The corrido is a ballad, or narrative song, native to Mexico. Considered the…

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Vinegar & Char

Vinegar & Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance, edited by poet Sandra Beasley, is SFA's latest book, available now from University of Georgia Press.

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Visible Yam

Randall Kenan first delivered this talk at the 2018 Southern Foodways Symposium on food and literature in Oxford, Mississippi.

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The Swamp Witches

The Swamp Witches, as this group of women call themselves, have been duck hunting together for nearly 20 years.

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La Victoria: 21st Century Corridistas

The corrido is a ballad, or narrative song, native to Mexico.

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Delicious Foods

Read SFA's five-part series situating Delicious Foods (2015) by James Hannaham in the broader narrative of Southern…

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2018 Fall Symposium Bibliography: Ready for Reading

Now's the time to get to your local bookstore, library, or laptop to study up on the connections between foodways and…

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Ghost of a Dream: Art at the 2018 Fall Symposium

Each year at the fall symposium, the SFA collaborates with 21c Museum Hotels to commission art that complements the…

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Hog Farms and Hurricanes: Looming Disaster

American enjoys its pork at the expense of some of the poorest populations in the nation. Consider Duplin County as…

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Go Ahead, Surprise Me

The features in this issue conjure South Louisiana, past, present, and future. They remind us that the region is…

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Bud Break in Virginia

“In Burgundy they make Burgundy. Here, we can make anything and everything.”

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Dare to Look

Al Clayton's Still Hungry in America asks two questions. First, what are the economic mechanisms that led to the…

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The Queer Pleasures of Tammy Wynette’s Cooking

Wynette’s whiteness, in theory, could have distanced me from her, but her anguish brought me closer.

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From Black Hands to White Mouths: Charleston’s Enslaved Cooks

Peek into the research of chef Kevin Mitchell, of Charleston, who earned his Southern Studies MA in Spring 2018.

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An Industry’s Heartbeat

Today, fishermen struggle as shrimp grow smaller and fewer, foreign imports increase, and their community ages. Add…

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Barbekue

The year was 1925, and the place was Arlington, Texas. Klan klaverns 66, 101, and 334 from Dallas, Fort Worth, and Oak…

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Marcelle Bienvenu’s Cajun Chronicles

SFA Oral Historian Annemarie Anderson shares field notes from her recent interviews with Marcelle Bienvenu.

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Featured Contributor: Maurice Carlos Ruffin

East New Orleans native Maurice Carlos Ruffin is a graduate of the University of New Orleans MFA program in creative…

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The Taking of Freret Street

"The city was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures. I wanted to attract people who could save…

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