The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table, we must un….

Terroir - the taste of place - was important from the early South of the first Indian, African, and Europeans to the nineteenth-century South. During….

If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by your family or by your neighbor's family. When I….

I think about what I eat every day. I try to eat as locally as I can and as healthily as I can. When you prepare a historic recipe that could as easi….

If there was ever a food that had politics behind it, it is soul food. Soul food became a symbol of the black power movement in the late 1960s. Chef ….

Historically, women's voices were central to food narratives, yet they were marginalized, and what happened at the table, the kitchen, the garden, an….

In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle, extrem….

Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way thei….

The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great dramas of histor….

When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think. I hear responses like fried ….

The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food reflects the hi….

Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europea….

While I felt very much a Southerner as a child, being Jewish gave me an outsider's perspective. People look at region in a variety of ways, and I alw….

Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples..

Food is an important lens onto the civil rights movement. One of the central issues of the movement was the right to eat in places that served the pu….

Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Sou….

The working poor in the South are often blamed for their reliance on "traditional" Southern food, while in reality, most are eating the same heavily ….