The Edible South
The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region
Marcie Cohen Ferris
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/2014
Pages: 496
Subject: Cooking, History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469617695
DESCRIPTION
The region in which European settlers were greeted with unimaginable natural abundance was simultaneously the place where enslaved Africans vigilantly preserved cultural memory in cuisine and Native Americans held tight to kinship and food traditions despite mass expulsions. Southern food, Ferris argues, is intimately connected to the politics of power. The contradiction between the realities of fulsomeness and deprivation, privilege and poverty, in southern history resonates in the region's food traditions, both beloved and maligned.