Cornbread Nation 5
The Best of Southern Food Writing
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Pages: 328
Illustrations: 16 b&w photos
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.250in
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Paperback
Pub Date: 04/15/2010
ISBN: 9-780-8203-3507-0
List Price: $27.95
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Published in association with Southern Foodways Alliance
Published with the generous support of Friends Fund
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Cornbread Nation 5
The Best of Southern Food Writing
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The fifth volume in this popular series from the Southern Foodways Alliance spans the food cultures of the South. Cornbread Nation 5, lovingly edited by accomplished food writer Fred W. Sauceman, celebrates food and the ways in which it forges unexpected relationships between people and places. In this collection of more than seventy essays and poems, we read about the food that provides nourishment as well as a sense of community and shared history.
Essays examine Nashville’s obsession with hot chicken and the South’s passion for congealed foods. There are stories of green tomatoes frying over a campfire in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee and tea cakes baking for Easter in Louisiana. In a chapter on immigrant cooking, writers visit the Mississippi Delta where a Chinese family fries pork rinds in a wok and a Lebanese restaurant serves baklava alongside coconut cream pie. Alan Deutschman, a self-described “Jewish Yankee,” chronicles his search for the perfect country ham. Barbara Kingsolver extols on the joys of eating sustainably. Sara Roahen writes a veritable love letter to the venerable New Orleans Sazerac. Kevin Young delights with his “Ode to Chicken,” and Donna Tartt treats us to what else but bourbon. Cornbread Nation 5 is a feast for the eyes, and if you’re not hungry or thirsty when you pick up this book, you will be when you put it down.
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.
Cornbread Nation 5 is a mouth-watering read that evokes the smells of exotic foods like fried Coke, paddlefish, and livermush, as well as the familiar aroma of field peas, corn, and sweet potato pie. . . . Fred Sauceman has edited a truly historic body of reflections on southern food that will be read with gusto by all who love to eat. And eat they must after relishing this beautiful book.
—William Ferris, author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues
Sam the Tamale Man, Mama Sugar, Doe’s Eat Place, North Carolina livermush, Georgia chicken mull, Jelly Roll Morton, Sazeracs and Micheladas—the very names of eats, drinks, jazzmen, and cooks are riffs on the heard melodies of culture and cuisine. In the South, eating, like writing, celebrates the fact that there’s no place like home.
—Betty Fussell, author of Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef
Marcie Ferris
Edna Lewis
Jennifer Justus
Scott Peacock
Martha Stamps
Molly O'Neill
Dan Huntley
Marilyn Kallet
Kevin Young
John Shelton Reed
Alan Deutschman
Carroll Leggett
Pete Daniel
Rheta Johnson
Beth Fennelly
Kathleen Purvis
Robb Walsh
Jessica B. Harris
Roy Blount
Ben Barker
John Martin Taylor
Julia Reed
Amy Evans
John T. Edge
Sara Camp Milam
Martha Foose
Brett Anderson
Crescent Dragonwagon
Sara Roahen
Fred W. Sauceman
John Kessler
Fred Thompson
Elizabeth Alexander
Barbara Kingsolver
Margaret Carr
Anthony Cavender
Charles C. Doyle
David Ramsey
Kara Carden
Katherine Whitworth
Jeffrey Gettleman
Garland Strother
Jack Neely
Chuck Shuford
Sarah Anne Loudin Thomas
Marianne Worthington
Kathryn Eastburn
Neely Barnwell Dykshorn
Lucretia Bingham
Susan Shelton
Lee Walburn
Salley Shannon
Michelle Healy
Sylvia Woods
Tore C. Olsson
Anne Martin
Joan Nathan
Mei Chin
George Motz
Corby Kummer
Andrew Huse
John S. Forrester
Robert St. John
Bill Archer
Devon Brenner
Donna Tartt
Francine Maroukian
John Simpkins
Ari Weinzwieg
