Beginning with this, our 50th issue of Gravy, we’re doubling in size. What began more than a decade ago as a folded pamphlet is now a 40-page journal, packed with essays, poetry, documentary work, photography, art, recipes, and highlights from SFA symposia. Drawing on our archive of more than 800 oral histories and from our 1,500-plus member base, we aim to vigorously champion the unsung voices of Southern food and drink while asking probing questions of our region and its people.

• Accounting for Taste — Steve Yarbrough
• Whole Hog — a poem by Kevin Young
• A Southern Literary Potluck — art by Emily Wallace
• All that Timeless Delicious Afternoon — Michael Oates Palmer
• Five Poems — Sandra Beasley
• Christmas in Auburn — Blair Hobbs
• Toques and Tomes
• Judith and Edna — Sara B. Franklin
• Mise en Place — a poem by Melissa Dickson
• The First Fire — recipe by Jayce McConnell
• She Spoke, and I Listened — as told to Sara Wood by Haylene Green
• A Lowcountry Pedigree — John T. Edge