Cornbread Nation 6: The Best of Southern Food Writing
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Overview
The book is organized into six chapters: “Menu Items” shares ruminations on iconic dishes; “Messing with Mother Nature” looks at the relationship between food and the natural environment; “Southern Characters” profiles an eclectic mix of food notables; “Southern Drinkways” distills libations, hard and soft; “Identity in Motion” examines change in the Southern food world; and “The Global South” leaves readers with some final thoughts on the cross-cultural influences wafting from the Southern kitchen. Gathered here are enough prominent food writers to muster the liveliest of dinner parties: Molly O’Neill, Calvin Trillin, Michael Pollan, Kim Severson, Martha Foose, Jessica Harris, Bill Addison, Matt and Ted Lee, and Lolis Eric Elie, among others. Two classic pieces—Frederick Douglass’s account of the sustenance of slaves and Edward Behr’s 1995 profile of Cajun cook Eula Mae Doré—are included. A photo essay on the Collins Oyster Company family of Louisiana rounds out Cornbread Nation 6.
Published in association with the Southern Foodways Alliance at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. A Friends Fund Publication.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780820342610 |
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Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
Publication date: | 05/01/2012 |
Series: | Cornbread Nation Series , #6 |
Pages: | 288 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
BRETT ANDERSON is the restaurant critic and a features writer at the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The winner of two James Beard awards for journalism, Anderson has written for such publications as Gourmet, Food & Wine, and the Washington Post.
ELIZABETH S. D. ENGELHARDT is a professor of American studies and women’s and gender studies at the University of Texas, Austin and is the chair of the Department of American Studies. She is the author of A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food (Georgia) and The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature.
CALVIN TRILLIN, a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker (where An Education in Georgia originally appeared as a series of articles), also writes a syndicated newspaper column. His many books include Travels with Alice, Enough's Enough (and Other Rules of Life), and American Stories.
SARA CAMP MILAM is the Southern Foodways Alliance’s managing editor. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
FRED W. SAUCEMAN is an associate professor of Appalachian studies at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of four books including the three-volume series The Place Setting, which explores Appalachian foodways. He directed and produced the documentary A Red Hot Dog Digest. Sauceman’s Food with Fred appears monthly on WJHL-TV, the CBS affiliate in Johnson City, Tennessee.
IAIN HALEY POLLOCK lives in Philadelphia and teaches English at Chestnut Hill Academy. His work has appeared in publications including AGNI, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Callaloo, Drunken Boat, and Indiana Review.
BRETT ANDERSON is the restaurant critic and a features writer at the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The winner of two James Beard awards for journalism, Anderson has written for such publications as Gourmet, Food & Wine, and the Washington Post.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Of Memes and Munificence
Brett Anderson
Menu Items
Why Chile con Queso Matters
Alison Cook
The Ceremony
Molly O'Neill
In Sorrow's Kitchen
Jessica B. Harris
Blood-Bought Luxuries
Frederick Douglass
Green Goddess: Why We Love Collard Greens
Lonnée Hamilton
The Fatback Collective
Wright Thompson
I Was a Texas Rib Ranger
Brett Martin
Fire in the Hole
Jon Fasman
Carlo Silvestrini on the Hog Slaughter
Greg Alan Brownderville
An Oyster by Any Other Name
Elizabeth Engelhardt
Adventures of a Boudin Junkie
Sara Roahen
Boy & Egg
Naomi Shihab Nye
As ConAgra Pulls Out, Workers Face Uncertainty
Sarah Nagem
Messing with Mother Nature
Reviving Red Snapper
Barry Estabrook
Flooded
Jennifer Justus
Reconsidering the Oyster
Paul Greenberg
The Collins Oyster Family
David Grunfeld
A Paradise Lost
Bob Marshall
Mr. Leroy and the French Club
Francis Lam
Southern Characters
Wendell Berry's Wisdom
Michael Pollan
Tom Pritchard, Local Culinary Rock Star and Stuff of Legend
Ben Montgomery
Home Grown
Jane Black
Blood and Water
Kim Severson
A Force of Nature
Andrea Weigl
St. Francine at the Café Max
John Dufresne
Eula Mae Doré
Edward Behr
How Not to Hire a Chef
Tim Carman
A Rapping Drag Queen and Her Fried Chicken
Ben Westhoff
Southern Drinkways
Past and Presence
Wayne Curtis
Whiskey and Geography
Charles D. Thompson Jr.
Cheerwine
Lucid Olason
Corncob Wine
Matt and Ted Lee
The Wild Vine
Todd Kliman
Identity in Motion
Empire State South: Athens Star Chef Hugh Acheson Brings Atlanta Its Latest Southern Sensation
Bill Addison
Real Cajun
Donald Link
No Daily Specials
Calvin Trillin
Pie + Design = Change
John T. Edge
The Origin Myth of New Orleans Cuisine
Lolis Eric Elie
Where Are All the Black Chefs?
John Kessler
Homesick Restaurants: How Dallas Became a Dining Nowhereville
Hanna Raskin
An Open Letter to Kim Severson
Besha Rodell
Family Pieces
Martha Foose
Putting Food on the Family
Jack Hitt
The Global South
Bags, Butter, Surfboards, and Spice: Viet-Cajun in Cali
Andrea Nguyen
Ravioli and Country Music's First Family
Fred Sauceman
Prospecting for Oil
David S. Shields
A Geechee Girl Speaks
Valerie Erwin
My Stove's in Good Condition
Iain Haley Pollock
Pancho at the Flor de Celaya
Bill Smith
Acknowledgments