The Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute founded in 1999, seeks to “document, study, and celebrate the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.” In this cookbook, which was inspired by those spiral-bound community cookbooks that are a staple of Southern households, you will find more than 170 tried-and-true recipes organized by chapters that represent mainstays of Southern cooking (e.g., Gravy, Garden Goods, Roots, Greens, Rice, Grist, Yardbird, Pig, and more). You’ll find diverse fare such buttermilk biscuits, cornbread, chicken and dumplings, rice-fried catfish, smothered quail, and stone-ground grits—enough to satisfy every Southern palate.

The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook, edited by Sara Roahen and John T. Edge, The University of Georgia Press, 2010,
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