From six in the morning until five in the afternoon, five days a week, for thirty years, my Grandmama Catherine’s fingers, palms, and wrists wandered deep in the bellies of dead chickens.
With so much attention focused on New Orleans, it can be easy to forget how much residents elsewhere—particularly in Mississippi—were devastated by Hurricane Katrina and how hard they had to work to rebuild their lives and businesses.
Wally Rakestraw knows when someone new walks into Latham’s Hamburger Inn, because he has to make sure he explains to them that “you know it’s a doughburger, right?”
Since the mid-1990s, an influx of Latino immigrants has radically transformed what Southerners expect of Mexican food. In this oral history project, we focus on Kentucky.
