The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
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Mexican culture is now as much a part of New Orleans as the Saints and Louis Prima.
Ava Lowrey is SFA's Pihakis Documentary Filmmaker.
Annemarie Anderson is SFA's Oral Historian.
Beginning in the year of his death, white Mississippians co-opted the Blind Jim story to further the segregation of…
Menus begin with the expressed intentions of the people who cook and sell you food, then turn to you to fill in the…
A fall day, a father and son, and a gun.
The best writers, the better writers, know that food is identity, food is alive, food is us.
The South was not a common landing point for Mexican immigrants until the 1990s. The region became their posada. It…
Fifty-plus years after Kennedy’s visit, Mississippi’s second congressional district now registers the highest rate of…