OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi’s Center for Writing and Rhetoric and the Southern Foodways Alliance have teamed up to co-host a lecture next week by award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan on the realities of our country’s food industry. The lecture, at 7 p.m. Monday (Feb. 25) in the Gertrude C. Ford Center for theRead the story …
Author to Discuss Her Investigation into the Nation’s Food Industry
Tracie McMillian slated for public lecture Monday at Ford Center
February 21, 2013 by
Travel and Leisure: The Mississippi Delta’s Small-Town Culture
January 18, 2013 by
The university’s intellectual spin-off is evident everywhere in the community. Films, lecture series, and symposia underwritten by the CSSC draw a diverse crowd of academics and enthusiasts. Read the story
New Food Professorship Gets Support From Atlanta Couple
Donation will help endow professorship in expanding academic area
October 25, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Kristie and Charles Abney of Atlanta have made a major gift to the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture, to help meet the goal of endowing a professorship in the growing academic study of foodways. “We made the gift because weRead the story …
Washington Post: Joe York says barbecue boils down to hard work
October 23, 2012 by
When he attended graduate school at the University of Mississippi, Joe York, 35, had no idea he was about to become a documentarian of living anthropology. Read the story
Chicago Sun Times: Southern foods is about much more than just the eats
June 18, 2012 by
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NPR: Food Truck Cookbook Tracks Best Meals Served On Wheels
June 8, 2012 by
Southern food historian and writer John T. Edge set off on a road trip to discover what mobile chefs were cooking up, and came back with The Truck Food Cookbook — part recipe collection, part travelogue, and part social analysis of the food truck frenzy. Listen to the story
ABC News: Food alliance documents, debates Southern cuisine
June 6, 2012 by
Geno Lee has dedicated his life to carrying on his great-grandfather’s tradition of serving Mississippi-style tamales and pig ear sandwiches. But it wasn’t until the Southern Foodways Alliance contacted him to make a documentary short about his restaurant that Lee fully realized the Big Apple Inn’s place in the history of Southern cuisine. Read theRead the story …
Washington Post: Food alliance examines rich history and culture underlying Southern cuisine
June 4, 2012 by
“In many ways, food is a nonthreatening entry point to speaking about bigger issues like race, class, gender and identity,” said John T. Edge, a food writer and director of the SFA. Read the story
Southern Foodways Alliance Supported by Order of the Okra
April 13, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Okra has long been the quintessential Southern food, a vegetable so versatile that it can be deep-fried in batter, boiled with tomatoes, pickled in brine or tossed into a big pot of simmering gumbo, bringing a unique and unmistakable flavor to every dish. Now it has a new role in Southern culinaryRead the story …