The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
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A region that has reinvented itself again and again since the Civil War is now in the midst of a newcomer revolution,…
When someone from Pinewoods died, it was common to go door to door, or place a bucket at a nearby gas station, to ask…
Charlotte dining has come full circle, even if epic expansion has yet to yield many world-class restaurants.
Carne asada tacos are now as Southern as biscuits and gravy, whether people want to believe it or not.
“What’s Hoppin’ John?” I asked no one in particular. It was 2013, and I was working as a host and server’s assistant at…
A Vietnamese American woman writing a coming-of-age novel set in and fed by the American South wasn’t a selling point.
Guelel Kumba's Afrissippi food truck in Oxford, Mississippi, seeks to keep multiple traditions alive without…
On a foggy morning in North Carolina, some 40 years after the conflict that displaced Toon's family and so many others,…
You have to look with fresh eyes to see the beauty in the strip-mall South.