The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook
Title Details
Pages: 296
Illustrations: 12 figures
Trim size: 7.500in x 9.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 04/01/2015
ISBN: 9-780-8203-4858-2
List Price: $28.95
Subsidies and Partnerships
Published in association with Southern Foodways Alliance
Published with the generous support of Friends Fund
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Everybody has one in their collection. You know—one of those old, spiral- or plastic-tooth-bound cookbooks sold to support a high school marching band, a church, or the local chapter of the Junior League. These recipe collections reflect, with unimpeachable authenticity, the dishes that define communities: chicken and dumplings, macaroni and cheese, chess pie. When the Southern Foodways Alliance began curating a cookbook, it was to these spiral-bound, sauce-splattered pages that they turned for their model.
Including more than 170 tested recipes, this cookbook is a true reflection of southern foodways and the people, regardless of residence or birthplace, who claim this food as their own. Traditional and adapted, fancy and unapologetically plain, these recipes are powerful expressions of collective identity. There is something from—and something for—everyone. The recipes and the stories that accompany them came from academics, writers, catfish farmers, ham curers, attorneys, toqued chefs, and people who just like to cook—spiritual Southerners of myriad ethnicities, origins, and culinary skill levels.
Edited by Sara Roahen and John T. Edge, written, collaboratively, by Sheri Castle, Timothy C. Davis, April McGreger, Angie Mosier, and Fred Sauceman, the book is divided into chapters that represent the region’s iconic foods: Gravy, Garden Goods, Roots, Greens, Rice, Grist, Yardbird, Pig, The Hook, The Hunt, Put Up, and Cane. Therein you’ll find recipes for pimento cheese, country ham with redeye gravy, tomato pie, oyster stew, gumbo z’herbes, and apple stack cake. You’ll learn traditional ways of preserving green beans, and you’ll come to love refried black-eyed peas.
Are you hungry yet?
Published in association with the Southern Foodways Alliance at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. A Friends Fund Publication.
It's as much Americana as cookbook, an effort to preserve a vanishing part of our culture. Either way, it's an instant classic.
—Time
The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook is a tribute to standards of the Southern table as well as a showcase for the delicious handiwork of some notable contemporary chefs.
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Each page herein delivers a strong sense of community; the contributions are from real people with real names; the collection is democratic, but with nary a sign of culinary chaos; and the food is just plain good. And here’s the best part, as far as I’m concerned: Regardless of whether it looks back into the past or ahead into the future, this book looks ever Southward.
—Alton Brown, from the foreword
So why are we excited about yet another Southern cookbook? By sourcing recipes from spiral-bound community cookbooks and then testing and adapting them for modern kitchens, this collection of recipes has the potential to become the standard reference on the topic. Add to that the research power of the Southern Foodways Alliance and its director John T. Edge, and this book could be unstoppable.
—Eater.com
Includes of plenty of genuinely new and genuinely Southern food to prove that it's still a living, breathing cuisine.
—Nashville Scene
—Christina Muhlke, New York Times
—Miriam Rubin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Winner
Gourmand Cookbooks Awards, Gourmand magazine
Runner-up
IACP Cookbook Awards, International Association of Culinary Professionals
Hugh Acheson
Sheri Castle
David Cecelski
Georgeanna Milam Chapman
Craig Claiborne
Nathalie Dupree
Lolis Eric Elie
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
Damon Fowler
Nikki Giovanni
Jessica B. Harris
Linton Hopkins
Mary Lasseter
Edward Lee
Ted Lee
Donald Link
April McGreger
Angie Mosier
Susan Puckett
Sara Roahen
Lee Smith
Robb Walsh
Virginia Willis
Joe York
Dale Abadie
Jean Anderson
Ben Averitt
Ben Barker
Karen Barker
Scott Barton
Billy Bayley
Allan Benton
Bill Best
Vishwesh Bhatt
Marcelle Bienvenu
Fritz Blank
Pauline P. Bridgforth
Sean Brock
Gayle Brooks
Eliza Brown
Walter Bundy
Richard Bunn
Ora Lee Butler
Erin Caricofe
Johnnie Carr
Kathy Cary
Ann Cashion
Margaret P. Cashion
Madge Castle
Bryan Caswell
Natalie Chanin
Leah Chase
Carol Copeland
Shirley Corriher
Diana Cottier
Mildred Council
John Coykendall
Amy Crockett
John Currence
Carol Darden
Norma Jean Darden
Sally Davenport
Nan Davis
Eula Mae Doré
Stephen Palmer Dowdney
Crescent Dragonwagon
Jason Edwards
Belinda Ellis
Rick Ellis
Corbin Evans
Eli Evans
Mary Beverly Evans
Pam Eversmeyer
John Fleer
John Folse
Martha Foose
Kenneth Ford
Sara Foster
Fred Fussell
Sara Gibbs
Jim Gossen
Flavius B. Hall
Melissa Booth Hall
Ashley Hansen
J.C. Hardaway
Chris Hastings
Thomas Head
Eddie Hernandez
Blair Hobbs
Beckett Howorth
Dan Huntley
Bret Jennings
Sonya Jones
Elizabeth Karmel
Lionel Key
Joyce King
Jimmy Koikos
Nicky Koikos
David Lasseter
Mike Lata
Phoebe Lawless
Austin Leslie
Dana Logsdon
Ronni Lundy
John Malik
Dean McCord
Rick McDaniel
Nancie McDermott
Robby Melvin
Alexander Mitchell
Debbie Moose
Gene Morris
Jennie Sue Murphree
Walter Murphree
Bill Neal
Cynthia LeJeune Nobles
Sarah O'Kelley
Louis Osteen
Mary Margaret Pack
Peter Patout
Tim Patridge
Scott Peacock
Bob Perry
Audrey Petty
Floyd Poche
Margaret Propst
Paul Prudhomme
Billy Reid
Kay Rentschler
Todd Richards
Jared Richardson
Lee Richardson
Cappy Ricks
Ann Garner Riddle
Grace Riley
Glenn Roberts
Clinton Robinson
Ray Robinson
Tom Sasser
Steven Satterfield
Jill Sauceman
Lynne Sawicki
Patty Schnatter
James Schroeder
Francine Wolfe Schwartz
Ed Scott
Jamie Shannon
Jim Shirley
Beth Shortt
LaRou Shouse
Bill Smith
Bill Smith
Ken Smith
Greg Sonnier
Susan Spicer
Martha Stamps
Kathy Starr
Robert Stehling
Frank Stitt
Chuck Subra
John Martin Taylor
Sarah Thomas
Poppy Tooker
Miguel Torres
Celeste Uzee
Vance Vaucresson
Julie Vaucresson
Ari Weinzwieg
Hal White
Liz Williams
Horace Randall Williams
Alex Young
Matthew Lee
Amy Evans
