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Ann Abadie
Kaye Adams
Jim Auchmutey
Marilou Awiakta
Ben Barker
Karen Barker
Ella Brennan
Ann Brewer
Karen Cathey
Leah Chase
Al Clayton
Mary Ann Clayton
Shirley Corriher
Norma Jean Darden
Crescent Dragonwagon
Nathalie Dupree
John T. Edge
John Egerton
Lolis Eric Elie
Donna Florio
John Folse
Terry Ford
Psyche Williams-Forson
Damon Lee Fowler
Vertamae Grosvenor
Jessica B. Harris
Cynthia Hizer
Portia James
Martha Johnston
Sally Belk King
Sarah Labensky
Edna Lewis
Rudy Lombard
Ronni Lundy
Louis Osteen
Marlene Osteen
Timothy W. Patridge
Paul Prudhomme
Joe Randall
Marie Rudisill
Dori Sanders
Richard Schweid
Ned Shank
Kathy Starr
Frank Stitt
Pardis Stitt
Marion Sullivan
Van Sykes
John Martin Taylor
Toni Tipton-Martin
Jeanne Voltz
Charles Reagan Wilson
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Interviews by SFA Members and Friends.
Project sponsored by Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q.
Among our most original foods are those in the Southern United States. And so my hope is to encourage that even further, so that our food is taken seriously as any other food.
~Lolis Eric Elie
Lolis Eric Elie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He holds an MA from the Columbia School of Journalism and an MFA from the University of Virginia. Elie was a featured columnist for New Orleans’ Times-Picayune from 1995 to 2009, and his writing has also appeared in the Oxford American, The New York Times, Bon Appetit, and Gourmet.
He wrote Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country and edited Cornbread Nation 2: The United States of Barbecue. More recently he joined the writing staff of HBO’s series Treme, a show that tells the story of the post-Katrina rebuilding and recovery of New Orleans. Elie lives and writes in New Orleans.
SUBJECT: Lolis Eric Elie, SFA Founder
DATE: October 8, 2004
LOCATIONS:
SFA Symposium - Oxford, MS
INTERVIEWER: April Grayson, Friend of the SFA
*TRANSCRIPT: To download a full transcript of this interview in PDF form, please click here.
