Announcing the 2017 Summer Foodways Symposium in Charlotte, NC
Our 2017 Summer Foodways Symposium is June 22 - 24 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Tickets on sale Wednesday, April 12.
View ArticleWhat Wealth Is
Wrap up National Poetry Month with this piece by Rebecca Gayle Howell, delivered at our 19th Southern Foodways Symposium.
View ArticleMeet 2017 Smith Symposium Fellows
The Smith Symposium Fellows, a program underwritten by a gift from Pam and Brook Smith, invites individuals whose work promises a positive impact on the southern region and its foodways to be guests at...
View Article2017 Southern Foodways Symposium: Watch it online!
Follow the SFA on social media this weekend: @potlikker on Twitter, southernfoodways on Instagram, and this year—for the first time—we'll be streaming presentations live online.
View ArticleMuchas Gracias
The 2017 Southern Foodways Symposium is in the books, and we want to take the time to say THANK YOU to all the wonderful individuals who help make this event happen.
View ArticleToward A New Southern Grammar
Over the next several days, we'll be sharing the 2017 symposium presentations. We begin with Lolis Elie.
View ArticleIliana Rocha: 2017 Symposium Poet in Residence
Poet Iliana Rocha is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma. Hear her words opening the 2017 symposium on our first morning.
View ArticleTraveling Ghosts Among Us
At the 2017 Southern Foodways Symposium, Michelle García rendered an image of her South Texas homeland through history, landscape, and her own writing.
View ArticleWhat is Latino Enough?
At the 2017 Southern Foodways Symposium, Paul Reyes introduces us to the threads of his family, woven together to create a man who wonders, "What is Latino enough?"
View ArticleGood Ol’ Chico: Y’all Come
By Gustavo Arellano My best friend, his girlfriend, and I had just ordered hummus at a hipster café. It was happy hour. Even though we were the only people there, service was slow. When the waitress...
View Article2018 SFA Graduate Student Symposium: Food Studies Across Disciplines
The 2018 SFA Graduate Student Conference will be Monday and Tuesday, September 10-11. Professor and author Kyla Wazana Tompkins from Pomona College will offer the keynote on Monday night at 6 p.m. The...
View ArticleSop It Dry
Dr. Regina Bradley delivers the invocation at our 2016 Southern Foodways Symposium.
View ArticleDora Charles’s Squash Casserole
Dora Charles grew up in Savannah, Georgia, where she cooked alongside her grandmother since the age of seven. For twenty years, she led the kitchen of The Lady and Sons.
View ArticleCassidee Dabney’s Crispy Cornmeal Mush
When I told my dad I'd discovered polenta, he said, “Oh, that’s just cornmeal mush.”
View ArticleEdouardo Jordan’s Okra Stew
Edouardo Jordan served okra stew with duck confit, cornbread, and a poached egg at our 19th Southern Foodways Symposium.
View ArticleJean-Paul Bourgeois’ Cornbread Madeleines
"As soon as I tasted Frank’s cornbread madeleines, I knew one day I was going to put them on my menu."
View ArticleWhat Wealth Is
Wrap up National Poetry Month with this piece by Rebecca Gayle Howell, delivered at our 19th Southern Foodways Symposium.
View ArticleGood Ol’ Chico: Y’all Come
We'll just do the South our way, and wait for everyone else to catch on.
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