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Subject: Announcement: Southern Cultures releases Food Issue and DVD

From: Dave Shaw [dshaw@email.unc.edu]
Subject: Southern Cultures releases Food Issue and DVD

Southern Cultures, the award-winning quarterly from UNC's Center for the
Study of the American South, has just released its Food Issue, which
includes essays, recipes, reviews, memories, favorite dishes, and a free
DVD of some of the Southern Foodways Alliance's short food films.

The contents include:
Nathalie Dupree on Grits & Yesteryear's Lowcountry Shrimp
The Lee Brothers on Buttermilk & Every Dish It Touches
John T. Edge on African American Cookbooks
Drum Head Stew Connoisseurs on a Mouthwatering Coastal Delicacy
John Egerton on Custard Pie & "The Yank-Off & Cool-Down"
Kathleen Purvis on a Pimento Cheese Outrage
Fred Sauceman on Fresh Frog Legs & Mining Ponds at Midnight
Jean Anderson on Tidewater Sweet Potato Pie
Mama Dip on Fooling Her Papa with a Dessert
John Currence on Peas--and his Dad at the Stove, Screaming at the Saints
Jessica Harris on Okra from Memphis to Mumbai
Bill Smith on Halved-Crab Soup & Using Chicken Necks as Bait

Plus:
What Really Makes Southern Foods Southern
Early 20th-Century Girls Tomato Canning Clubs
Making Connections through Food
The Recipe Revealed: Real Red Gravy
Local Food Growers on Preserving Southern Meals
The Family Heirloom that Inspired a Thanksgiving Feast
The History of a Plantation Discovered through Food
New Poetry from Michael McFee

It all comes with an introduction from the issue's Guest Editor, Marcie
Cohen Ferris.

Visit: www.SouthernCultures.org