The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
Interview
Everybody knows about Dan Robinson’s homestyle cafeteria, Dandgure’s, just outside of downtown Nashville. Since 1991,…
Kahlil picked up his chops in the kitchen from longtime cooks, busboys, and of course his father. And though he keeps…
David Biggs might have a thing for music — but he also has a thing for meat-n-threes. David grew up amidst the rich…
Born in 1933, Jakie Cook was the son-in-law of Wendell Smith, Sylvan Park entrepreneur and founder of the eponymous…
Born on a kitchen table in 1937 at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Jack Arnold must have been destined for the…
The late Bolton Polk had a family recipe for spicy fried chicken and used it to open The Chicken Shack in East…
Rose DeShazer White, a native in Hollandale, Mississippi, grew up eating caramel cake. Her mother baked caramel cakes…
Edna Stewart’s parents were sharecroppers in Covington, Tennessee, until they moved to Chicago in 1936. Edna was born…
James Lemons and his four brothers grew up in Indianola, Mississippi, where their mother taught them to cook, and where…