Edited by John Egerton, this first volume in an annual series gathers fifty essays, features, and poems celebrating Southern food, culture, and storytelling, produced in partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance.
Contributors include Nikki Giovanni on cook Edna Lewis, James Villas remembering Craig Claiborne, Rick Bragg on Thanksgivings at home, Robert Morgan on canning season, and Fred Chappell’s contrarian take on iced tea.
As Egerton writes, nothing the South offers the world, except perhaps its music, is as enduring and heartwarming as its food, and this collection makes the case one essay at a time.
Published 2002
272 pages
$25.09