The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
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Ava Lowrey is SFA's Pihakis Documentary Filmmaker.
East New Orleans native Maurice Carlos Ruffin is a graduate of the University of New Orleans MFA program in creative…
My parents left Alabama, the place. They made good lives in Detroit. But they never left Alabama, the ideal.
In the nineteenth-century rural South, sharecroppers grew corn, sold corn, ate corn, and became sick—all because of a…
How do we talk about the foods of communities of which we do not really form a part?
Sandra Beasley, author of three poetry collections and a memoir, contributed two poems to Gravy #55: What to Read &…
“So many cicadas and not a trout stream to be found.”
For the next few Fridays, we'll be sharing some essays that explore the unexpected ways the worlds of food, drink, and…
Oh, good Gravy! Our quarterly print journal and bi-weekly podcast has been named the 2015 Publication of the Year by…