Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook

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A small group of SFA writers and cooks has set about putting together a community cookbook of recipes culled from our esteemed membership and oral history subjects.

. We aim to celebrate grandmothers and artisans, farmers and bartenders, authors and chefs. We are still in the gathering-and-writing stages, but for a glimpse of the book’s bright future, consider these pointed words, penned by our committee at the book’s conception.

“Think of an old spiral-bound cookbook of the sort that was popular before the Junior League thought it would make a mint on coffee table style books. That’s what we’re aiming for.”

The worker bees include Sara Roahen and John T. Edge as wranglers and editors; Sheri Castle as recipe tester; and Tim Davis, April McGreger and Angie Mosier as recipe gatherers and writers – with help from Fred Sauceman. The University of Georgia Press is our publisher. And our working title is “The Spiral Bound Bible of Southern Cooking: A Community Cookbook from the Southern Foodways Alliance,” though don’t hold us to it. Publication date is fall of 2010.