The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
Interview
Charles Reagan Wilson moved to Oxford to teach at the University of Mississippi in 1981 (he later served as the…
Oral History
Football and Faulkner, kudzu and coeds. Oxford, Mississippi, has as many claims to fame as it does traditions, but it’s…
Photographer Martin J. Dain visited Oxford in the early 1960s to document William Faulkner's fabled Yoknapatawpha…
Born in Oxford, Georgia Isaiah spent thirty years cooking for two chancellors at the University of Mississippi. When…
Ron Shapiro made his way to Oxford in the late 1970s, and the town hasn't been the same since. Soon after arriving, he…
For many years, Aubrey Seay managed the cafeteria at the University of Mississippi, establishing lifelong relationships…
Billy Starnes was a commercial fisherman who caught everything that would brush up against his line at Sardis Lake. In…
Tom Mistilis arrived in the United States from Greece in the early part of the twentieth century. After making his way…