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The edible South : the power of food and the making of an American region / Marcie Cohen Ferris.
Van Pelt Library GT2853.U5 F47 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferris, Marcie Cohen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food habits--Southern States--History.
- Food habits.
- Food--Social aspects--Southern States--History.
- Food.
- Cooking, American--Southern style--History.
- Cooking, American.
- Cooking, American--Southern style.
- History.
- Food--Social aspects.
- Southern States--Social life and customs.
- Southern States.
- Manners and customs.
- Southern States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 477 pages ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Part I Early South-Plantation South 7
- 1 Outsiders: Travelers and Newcomers Encounter the Early South 9
- 2 Insiders: Culinary Codes of the Plantation Household 23
- 3 I Will Eat Some for You: Food Voices of Northern-Born Governesses in the Plantation South 34
- 4 An Embattled Table: The Language of Food in the Civil War South 48
- 5 Culinary Testimony: African Americans and the Collective Memory of a Nineteenth-Century South 71
- 6 The Reconstructed Table 85
- Part II New South 95
- 7 The Shifting Soil of Southern Agriculture and the Undermining of the Southern Diet 97
- 8 Home Economics and Domestic Science Come to the Southern Table 109
- 9 The Southern "Dietaries": Food Field Studies in Alabama and Eastern Virginia 124
- 10 Reforming the Southern Diet One Student at a Time: The Mountain South and the Lowcountry 137
- 11 Agricultural Reform Comes Home 151
- 12 The Deepest Reality of Life: Southern Sociology, the WPA, and Food in the New South 166
- 13 Branding the Edible New South 188
- 14 A Journey Back in Time: Food and Tourism in the New South 213
- Part III Modern South 243
- 15 I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table: Southern Food and the Civil Rights Movement 245
- 16 Culinary Landmarks of "The Struggle" 266
- 17 A Hungry South 285
- 18 A Food Counterculture, Southern-Style 301
- 19 New Southern Cuisine 315.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469617688
- 1469617684
- OCLC:
- 875742401
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