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Welcome to the Southern Foodways Alliance -- an affiliated
institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
with headquarters at the University of Mississippi in
Oxford, Mississippi.
The mission of the SFA is to celebrate, preserve, promote,
and nurture the traditional and developing diverse food cultures of
the American South.
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Three Irresistible
Collections
of Southern Cooking at its Finest –
Cornbread Nation I, II, and III
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The first volume
in what will be an annual collection, Cornbread Nation
gathers the best of recent Southern food writing. In fifty-one entries--original
features and selections previously published in magazines and journals--contributors
celebrate the people, places, traditions, and tastes of the American
South.
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Cornbread Nation 2 is
the second volume in a series on the best of Southern food writing
collected by the Southern Foodways Alliance. It is the first
book to take a serious look at barbecue from a myriad of viewpoints,
and the most complete barbecue anthology ever assembled. Even
the most devoted barbecue fans will find many new and surprising
insights in this collection of forty-three newspaper columns,
magazine pieces, poems, and essays. Included are such diverse
topics as the history of pigs in America; the Caribbean origins
of barbecue; the role of black chefs in the history of Texas
barbecue pits; and the best time of the month to make South
Carolina barbecue hash.
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The stories, poems, and essays
gathered in Cornbread Nation 3: Foods of the Mountain South
were born along the winding roads of Appalachia, in the vales
of the Ozarks, and in the flatlands beyond, where mountain people
traveled in the hillbilly diaspora. Here, wisdom is gleaned
in coal-mining camps, at roadside vegetable stands, at dinners
on church grounds, and on shady front porches.
In these tantalizing pieces, leather britches
are set to dry in a classic rite, the sweetness of corn approaches
the divine, a bean without strings
brooks no flavor, and the arrival of autumn brings the heady
scent of the ripe and secretive pawpaw. The volume's contributors
include trailblazing
writers from the past and present--Tony Earley, Michael McFee,
Marilou Awiakta, Frank X Walker, and Harriet Arnow--who demonstrate
the power of
connectedness among families and neighbors and remind us that
earth's greatest treasures grow from well-tended seeds.
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Oxford’s Square Books – click here.
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Each fall, the SFA (with support from the Fertel Foundation) honors an
unsung hero or heroine, a foodways tradition bearer of note, with the Ruth
Fertel Keeper of the Flame Award.
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Help the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrate, preserve, promote,
and nurture the traditional and developing food culture of the American South.
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