The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
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In the United States, home-cooked meals with family are revered almost to the point of fetishization. Dinners are seen as moral imperatives for happy, healthy families.
If you want to see the American future, visit Greater Houston, the nation's most diverse major metropolitan area and home to the South's biggest city.
Hannah Drake gathers a group of women for a dinner series called Stories from the Hem of My Mother's Apron. All the women have to do is bring a dish, along with their mother or sister. The goal: To cook and eat a meal with their loved ones.
Women of the Civil Rights era opened their homes to the architects and strategists of the Movement, providing home-cooked meals, places to rest, and safe rooms for plotting attacks on Jim Crow.
What happens when a white family in the American South adopts an 11-year-old Chinese girl who’s never eaten a meal…
