The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
Gravy Podcast
As Charlotte works to rebrand itself as a destination for food and drink, it has to choose which stories to tell.
Chefs stage pop-up dinners to tell stories, many of them focused on identity.
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.
Legal moonshine production—funny as that sounds—has exploded in the South.
Writer and editor Paul Reyes, the US-born son of Colombian and Cuban parents, examines his identity through language,…
By the end of the twentieth century, hog farming had replaced tobacco as the backbone of eastern North Carolina's…
This episode of Gravy is a sound portrait of an African American farm couple in North Carolina, Eddie and Dorothy Wise.…
For generations, farmers in western North Carolina have relied on tobacco as a core crop, their lifeblood. So: what’s happening to that culture as the tobacco industry has changed?
In Chapel Hill, there’s a farm that’s much more than just a spot to grow food: it’s a gathering place for refugees,…
