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Stock photo of tomatoes.

The Southern Story of Tomatoes

Tales of the treasured South American-born, Southern-bred vegetable (yes, vegetable).
by Caroline Sanders Clements via Garden & Gun on June 8, 2022
Illustration of Pimento Cheese on Bread by Carter.

Pimento-cracy

The history of pimento cheese as a working class fixture and a symbol of Southern culture as seen through mystery novels.
by Cynthia R. Greenlee via Oxford American on March 23, 2021

Fried Chicken Is Common Ground

If you like hot chicken, perhaps you’d be interested in knowing where it comes from.
by Osayi Endolyn via Eater on October 3, 2018

Southern History, Deep Fried

John T. Edge's "The Potlikker Papers" looks at multiculturalism, conflict, and civil rights in the American South—all through the history of the region's food.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Republic on May 26, 2017

America’s Most Political Food

The founder of a popular South Carolina barbecue restaurant was a white supremacist.
by Lauren Collins via The New Yorker on April 24, 2017
Plate of fried chicken, hushpuppies, and a biscuit

The Real History of Hushpuppies

Hushpuppies are delicious, iconically Southern, and no one seems to have a clue where they came from.
by Robert F. Moss via Serious Eats on June 23, 2015
Food writer Edna Lewis.

What Is Southern?

A food writer's reminiscences of local cuisine in the springtime.
by Edna Lewis via Gourmet on January 1, 2008
An engraving of Mrs. David Meade Randolph by Charle de Saint-Mémin.

Southern Hospitality? The Abstracted Labor of the Whole Pig Roast

Barbecue is a cornerstone of American cuisine, containing all of the contradictions of the country itself.
by Jessica Carbone via Perspectives on History on January 19, 2024
Two rosin potatoes sitting on newspaper.

The Elusive Roots of Rosin Potatoes

A talk with family, turpentine workers, historians, chefs, foresters, and beer brewers to get to the root of the rosin potato's origins.
by Caroline Hatchett via The Bitter Southerner on November 22, 2022
Book cover of "Grain and Fire: A History of American Baking."

A Fresh Look at the History of Pecan Pie

The pecan pie as we know it is very much a twentieth-century creation, so if you ever see a recipe entitled “Old South Pecan Pie,” you know it’s bogus.
by Rebecca Sharpless via UNC Press Blog on November 16, 2022
Drawing of the Pawpaw fruit (green)

Plant of the Month: The Pawpaw

The pawpaw is finding champions again after colonizers' dismissal, increasing globalization and economic needs.
by Julia Fine via JSTOR Daily on September 22, 2021
An illustration of deviled eggs.

The Secrets of Deviled Eggs

A food writer cracks into the power of food memories and what deviled eggs might tell us about who we are and who we might become.
by Emily Strasser via The Bitter Southerner on November 12, 2020

Memo From a Historian: White Ladies Cooking in Plantation Museums are a Denial of History

At museums across the South, you'll often find a white woman cooking in a big house kitchen. That's a role that was usually done by enslaved Africans.
by Kelley Fanto Deetz via The Conversation on December 13, 2019

Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Sit Down

Michael W. Twitty on the changing tides of plantation interpretation.
by Michael W. Twitty via Afroculinaria on August 9, 2019

Charleston-Area Residents Remember the First Time They Ate in White-Owned Restaurants

Their experiences help explain why segregated spaces persist in Charleston's restaurants today.
by Hanna Raskin via Post and Courier on May 18, 2019
Edna Lewis in the kitchen.

The People of Freetown

Can renowned Southern chef and writer Edna Lewis' radical communist politics be parsed out by analyzing her cookbooks?
by Mayukh Sen via Popula on September 26, 2018
Vintage Georgia postcard.

The Un-Pretty History Of Georgia's Iconic Peach

Why are Georgia peaches so iconic? The answer has a lot to do with slavery — its end and a need for the South to rebrand itself.
by Tove Danovich via NPR on July 21, 2017

Who Owns Uncle Ben?

The roots of rice in South Carolina's Lowcountry are troubling and complicated. Today, we stir the pot.
by Shane Mitchell via The Bitter Southerner on June 6, 2017
Waiter taking a plate of calas on from the counter to serve

Meet the Calas, a New Orleans Tradition That Helped Free Slaves

A path to freedom for enslaved blacks, an engine of economic independence, a treat for Mardi Gras revelers.
by Maria Godoy via NPR on February 12, 2013
A peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich.

The Disappearance of the Peanut Butter and Mayonnaise Sandwich

In the South, the pairing was once as popular as PB&J.
by Rachel Rummel via Atlas Obscura
Illustration of the Georgia Peach.

The Georgia Peach: A Labor History

The peach industry represented a new, scientifically driven economy for Georgia, but it also depended on the rhythms and racial stereotypes of cotton farming.
by Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on July 1, 2024
Film portrayal of James Hemmings

America’s First Connoisseur

Edward White’s new monthly column, “Off Menu,” serves up lesser-told stories of chefs cooking in interesting times.
by Edward D. White via The Paris Review on May 21, 2020

The History Behind One of America’s Most Beloved Desserts

The origins of the praline candy can be traced back to enslaved black women in Louisiana.
by Myles Poydras via The Atlantic on January 5, 2020
First Lady Grace Coolidge with the racoon that was meant to be dinner.

Why President Coolidge Never Ate His Thanksgiving Raccoon

A tradition as American as apple pie, and older than the Constitution.
by Luke Fater via Atlas Obscura on November 26, 2019

Gump Talk

25 years later, what does Gump mean?
via Contingent on July 1, 2019
Daveed Diggs and Lin Manuel Miranda on stage in the musical Hamilton.

Notes Toward an Essay on Imagining Thomas Jefferson Watching a Performance of the Musical "Hamilton"

"But he'd have to acknowledge that the soul of his country is southern; the soul of his country is black."
by Randall Kenan, Ginnie Hsu via Southern Cultures on June 1, 2019
Union troops of 5th and 9th Corps receiving Thanksgiving rations during the American Civil War, c. 1864.

For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression

In the 19th century, pumpkin pie ignited a culture war.
by Ariel Knoebel via Atlas Obscura on November 22, 2018
The house of Alfred Iverson Jr. behind a white curtain.

My Civil War

A southerner discovers the inaccuracy of the the myths he grew up with, and slowly comes to terms with his connection to the Civil War.
by John T. Edge via Oxford American on April 8, 2014

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