The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
Oral History
The Downtown Greenwood Farmers’ Market was established in 2008 as a project of Main Street Greenwood, a non-profit…
Interview
For twenty years, Hallie worked at in a factory in Greenwood. She would sell produce on the side to supplement her…
Alisa Lay comes from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers. Her great-grandmother had seventeen children and stretched…
Leroy Kenter, Jr., better known as “Spooney,” started cooking barbecue in Kansas City, Kansas. When he returned home to…
After a career with the U. S. Forest service and a failed business attempt on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Hal returned…
Today Leann operates Levee Run Farm, where she raises farm-fresh eggs, as well as pastured poultry of all kinds:…
John D. Ashcraft III—and probably most of the Delta—thought his father was a little crazy to plant blueberries that far…
A native of Oxford, Mississippi, Donald Bender fell into baking quite by accident. After working as a line cook here…
Bennie works almost 45 acres just because, as he puts, he “likes to see things grow.” He plants everything from okra to…
