The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
Gravy
A job feeding college students means few benefits for contract laborers.
On an average day, the Nile tilapia travels less than five miles from its watery home to an Auburn University dining…
By the time I was born, my mother had given up trying to recreate her father's biscuits from memory.
Three interlocked stories on the economics and labor practices of campus dining at Auburn University, the University of…
In this Nuevo South, as in the South of my father, divisive rhetoric reverberates, echoing a larger national debate…
My little tiptoe trips to Montgomery opened up a new world to me—and brought me face-to-face with one of my greatest…
Change comes in many forms. During the spring in Alabama it sometimes comes from the horizon, a funnel-shaped cloud…
My parents left Alabama, the place. They made good lives in Detroit. But they never left Alabama, the ideal.
"Fourth of July dinner isn’t much different now than it was in 1962, when there was nothing green on the table but…
