Description
The region in which European settlers were greeted with unimaginable natural abundance was simultaneously the place where enslaved Africans vigilantly preserved cultural memory in cuisine and Native Americans held tight to kinship and food traditions despite mass expulsions. Southern food, Ferris argues, is intimately connected to the politics of power. The contradiction between the realities of fulsomeness and deprivation, privilege and poverty, in southern history resonates in the region's food traditions, both beloved and maligned.
About the Author
Marcie Cohen Ferris, associate professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA is the author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469629957
Author Marcie Cohen Ferris
Format Paperback
Page Count 496
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press