The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
Oral History
Chinese immigrants came to America in the late nineteenth century in search of the fabled Gam Sahn, or Golden Mountain.…
Interview
Though he grew up in a family of grocery store owners, Luck knew that it wasn’t the life for him. When he enrolled in…
For more than sixty years, the Yees have owned and operated a grocery store in the Arkansas Delta town of Lake Village.…
Opened in 1968 by Wong's parents, How Joy was one of the first Chinese restaurants to open in the Mississippi Delta and…
Though she looks fondly at her childhood growing up in the back of her parent's grocery store, Min Sang Company, which…
For Tony and Monica Li the fabled Gam Sahn (Golden Mountain) of their ancestors may have been a myth, but the “American…
