Cornbread Nation 7 The Best of Southern Food Writing / edited by Francis Lam ; general editor, John T. Edge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lam, Francis, editor.

University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, issuing body.

Southern Foodways Alliance, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Southern States.

Food habits.

Food writing.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It's so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they've spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and of traditions that form identities of many kinds. Cornbread Nation 7, edited by Francis Lam, brings together the best Southern food writing from recent years, including well-known food writers such as Sara Roahen and Brett Anderson, a couple of classic writers such as Langston Hughes, and some newcomers. The collection, divided into five sections ("Come In and Stay Awhile," "Provisions and Providers," "Five Ways of Looking at Southern Food," "The South, Stepping Out," and "Southerners Going Home"), tells the stories both of Southerners as they move through the world and of those who ended up in the South. It explores from where and from whom food comes, and it looks at what food means to culture and how it relates to home.

Contents:

Introduction / Francis Lam

Come in and stay awhile

We Waited as Long as We Could / Daniel Patterson

Restaurant / Susan Orlean

Stuffed, Smothered, Z'herbes / Sara Roahen

What I Cook Is Who I Am / Edward Lee

God Has Assholes for Children / Eddie Huang

You Have to Fall in Love with Your Pot / As told to Sara Wood by Ida MaMusu

Around the World in Eight Shops / Kathleen Purvis

That's Your Country / As told to Sara Wood by Argentina Ortega

Friends and Families / Nikki Metzgar

The Perfect Chef / Todd Kliman

Provisions and providers

Nature's Spoils / Burkhard Bilger

I Had a Farm in Atlanta / John T. Edge

The Price of Tomatoes / Barry Estabrook

Working in the Shadows / Gabriel Thompson

The Celebrity Shepherd / Besha Rodell

The Triumph of Jamie Oliver's "Nemesis" / Jane Black

Grabbing Dinner / Bill Heavey

Hogzilla / Dan Baum

A Taste for the Hunt / Jonathan Miles

Eat Dessert First / Robb Walsh

Anyone and Everyone Is Welcome / As told to Francis Lam by Sue Nguyen

Five ways of looking at Southern food

The Great Leveler / Julia Reed

The Post-Husk Era / Robert Moss

Ode to Gumbo / Kevin Young

Mother Corn and the Dixie Pig: Native Food in the Native South / Rayna Green

Every Ounce a Man's Whiskey? Bourbon in the White Masculine South / Seán McKeithan

The South, stepping out

When the Queso Dripped Like Honey / Sarah Hepola

Willie Mae Seaton Takes New York / Lolis Eric Elie

Mississippi Chinese Lady Goes Home to Korea / Ann Taylor Pittman

An Oyster Named Dan / Jack Pendarvis

Coconut: The Queen of Cakes / Jeffrey Steingarten

The Vicksburg Lebanese Supper / As told to Amy Evans by Mary Louise Nosser

Soul Food? What Is That? / Langston Hughes

We Shall Not Be Moved / Jessica B. Harris

Fixing on the Next Star / Patricia Smith

The Brixton: It's New, Happening, and Another Example of African American Historical "Swagger-Jacking" / Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Southerners going home

I Placed a Jar in Tennessee / John Jeremiah Sullivan

A Love Letter to North Carolina's Red Bridges Barbecue / Monique Truong

The Missing Link: Donald Link Opens Second Cochon in Lafayette / Brett Anderson

Of Pepperoni Rolls and Soup Beans: On What It Might Mean to Eat like a West Virginian / Courtney Balestier

Pasquale's Hot Tamales / As told to Amy Evans by Joe St. Columbia

cutting greens / Lucille Clifton

Remembering Pitmaster Ricky Parker / Joe York

Grace / Jake Adam York

Contributors

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

"Published in association with the Southern Foodways Alliance and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8203-4695-0

OCLC:

879242935