Tunde Wey will explore the political potential of food in a nation that marginalizes individuals based on race, gender, sexuality, immigration status, and religion.
“What if the South led?” Moderator John Simpkins posed this question halfway through a two-day gathering at Rivendell Writers’ Colony in Sewanee, Tennessee, which focused on how difference based on color imprints and imperils American food culture.
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.
