| Cornbread Nation 5: The Best of Southern Food Writing Contributor(s): Sauceman, Fred W. (Editor), Ferris, Marcie (Contribution by), Lewis, Edna (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 082033507X ISBN-13: 9780820335070 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | Essays & Narratives - Cooking | Regional & Ethnic - American - Southern States |
| Dewey: 394.120 |
| LCCN: 2009032881 |
| Series: Cornbread Nation: Best of Southern Food Writing |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.2" (1.05 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sauceman, Fred W.: - FRED W. SAUCEMAN is an associate professor of Appalachian studies at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of four books including the three-volume series The Place Setting, which explores Appalachian foodways. He directed and produced the documentary A Red Hot Dog Digest. Sauceman's Food with Fred appears monthly on WJHL-TV, the CBS affiliate in Johnson City, Tennessee.Edge, John T.: - JOHN T. EDGE is the director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the foodways volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.Blount, Roy: - ROY BLOUNT JR.'s works include the memoir Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story, the novel First Hubby, the screenplay for Larger than Life, the edited anthology Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor, and such collections as Now, Where Were We? and Not Exactly What I Had in Mind. He is a frequent guest on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" and a columnist for the Oxford American. He lives in New York City and western Massachusetts.Anderson, Brett: - BRETT ANDERSON is the restaurant critic and a features writer at the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The winner of two James Beard awards for journalism, Anderson has written for such publications as Gourmet, Food & Wine, and the Washington Post.Roahen, Sara: - SARA ROAHEN is an oral historian and the author of Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table. She has written for Tin House and Food & Wine.Milam, Sara Camp: - SARA CAMP MILAM is the Southern Foodways Alliance's managing editor. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.Kallet, Marilyn: - MARILYN KALLETT has published sixteen books, including six volumes of poetry, translations, critical essays, children's books, pedagogy, and anthologies of women's literature. She is a professor emerita of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.Reed, John Shelton: - JOHN SHELTON REED is founding coeditor of the journal Southern Cultures. He is the Mark W. Clark Visiting Professor History at the Citadel, and William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is coauthor, with Dale Volberg Reed, of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South. |