Bücher der Reihe Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place

Argues that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper understanding of our overlapping, historically situated, and evolving cultures and societies.

Scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. This book bridges this gap, illuminating the role of foodways in African American culture and the contributions of Black cooks to what has been considered the mainstream.