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Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing (Cornbread Nation: Best of Southern...
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Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing (Cornbread Nation: Best of Southern...
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by Contributors, Dale Volberg Reed and John Shelton Reed.John T. Edge, and general editor
Sales Rank : 198685
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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: University of Georgia Press April 1, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0820330892
ISBN-13: 978-0820330891
Product Dimensions:
9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
Product Review
"Cornbread Nation 4 is a vivid, heart-felt, often lyrical look at some of the most iconic food of the South-- from the commercial to the home-cooked to the most seasonal of delicacies, gathered in the wild." -- Pop Matters, April 17, 2008
"Southern food is legendary stuff, but southern food writing may be even better, at least as exampled in these pages." --John Thorne, author of Serious Pig
"When you feel yourself getting hungry, you know it's right." --Warwick Sabin, Arkansas Review
"[The Cornbread Nation] series only gets better with each volume." --Mariani's Virtual Gourmet
Product Description
This new collection in the Southern Foodways Alliance's popular series serves up a fifty-three-course celebration of southern foods, southern cooking, and the people and traditions behind them. Editors Dale Volberg Reed and John Shelton Reed have combed magazines, newspapers, books, and journals to bring us a "best of" gathering that is certain to satisfy everyone from omnivorous chowhounds to the most discerning student of regional foodways.
After an opening celebration of the joys of spring in her natal Virginia by the redoubtable Edna Lewis, the Reeds organize their collection under eight sections exploring Louisiana and the Gulf Coast before and after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the food and farming of the Carolina Lowcountry, "Sweet Things," southern snacks and fast foods,
"Downhome Food," "Downhome Places," and a comparison of southern foods with those of other cultures.
In his "This Isn't the Last Dance," Rick Bragg recounts his experience, many years ago, of a New Orleans jazz funeral and finds hope therein that the unique spirit of New Orleanians will allow them to survive: "I have seen these people dance, laughing, to the edge of a grave. I believe that, now, they will dance back from it." "My passport may be stamped Yankee," writes Jessica B. Harris in her "Living North/Eating South," "but there's no denying that my stomach and culinary soul and those of many others like me are pure Dixie." In her "Tough Enough: The Muscadine Grape," Simone Wilson explains that the lowly southern fruit has double the heart-healthy resveratrol of French grapes, thus offering the hope of a "southern paradox." The title of Candice Dyer's brief history says it all: "Scattered, Smothered, Covered, and Chunked: Fifty Years of the Waffle House." In a photo essay, documentarian Amy Evans shows us the world of oystering along northwest Florida's Apalachicola Bay, and for the first time in the series, recipes are given-for a roux, braised collard greens, doberge cake, and other dishes.
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