Recently added articles from Southern Cultures:
Front porch.(Southern food)(Editorial)
Dec 22, 2009; Watson, Harry ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Some years ago, I participated in a frank and comradely exchange of views on the late unpleasantness with a nearby chapter of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars, the society for male descendants of Confederate military officers and government ...
The edible South.(INTRODUCTION)(Essay)
Dec 22, 2009; Ferris, Marcie Cohen ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My mother-in-law, Shelby Flowers Ferris, has kept a daily journal for over forty years. These are not personal diaries in which she shares her "feelings"--which I imagine seem self-indulgent to such a practical woman--but rather carefully recorded details ...
"Peace and a smile to the lips": favorite southern food dishes.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2009; Purvis, Kathleen ... by some of our favorite southern food writers with an introduction by Kathleen Purvis [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You might want to handle these pages carefully. What you have in your hands isn't just a list of memories and tastes. It's an act of bravery akin to holding a ...
Drum head stew: the power and poetry of terroir.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2009; Herman, Bernard L. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Eastern Shore of Virginia, a long narrow peninsula, projects roughly seventy miles southward from the Maryland state line to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The Atlantic Ocean bounds the two counties (Northampton and Accomack) on the east and the ...
Canning tomatoes, growing "Better and More Perfect Women": the girls' tomato club movement.(ESSAY)
Dec 22, 2009; Engelhardt, Elizabeth ... <Pre> Tomato Club. Tomato Club. See how we can. See how we can. Give us tomatoes and a good sharp knife-- This is the place to get a good wife. Did ever you see such girls in your life-- As the Tomato Club? --Tomato Club Song, c. 1914 (1) </Pre> [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Food for thought: race, region, identity, and foodways in the American South.(South Polls)(Essay)
Dec 22, 2009; Latshaw, Beth A. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Southern writer John Egerton has called it "central to the region's image, its personality, and its character," naming it as "an esthetic wonder, a sensory delight, [and even a] mystical experience." (1) It is said to be innovative, artistic, and ...
Put It on the Skillet: liner notes.(The Edible South's Special DVD)(Video recording review)
Dec 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PRESENTED BY Southern Cultures at The UNC Center for the Study of the American South Contemporary documentary films on a variety of southern food topics are available through Appalshop, Folkstreams, and the Southern Foodways Alliance (filmmaker ...
