The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
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Gospel star Mahalia Jackson used fried chicken to push for economic empowerment in the black community.
At the FARM Café in Boone, North Carolina, diners can pay $10 for meal—or they can pay nothing. The restaurant, one of dozens of its kind, follows a pay-what-you-can model.
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.