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Welcome to the Southern Foodways Alliance -- an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture with headquarters at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.

The Southern Foodways Alliance documents and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the American South. We set a common table where black and white, rich and poor -- all who gather-- may consider our history and our future in a spirit of reconciliation.

Southern Foodways Alliance:
Tastiest scholarly group in the south

Saveur • January/February 2003

For championing Southern food traditions and food producers otherwise likely to sink into oblivion and for showing us new ways to appreciate foods already bathed in glory–like barbeque, corn bread, and gumbo; for reminding us that Southern cooking is as diverse as the people involved in it; for doing all these things through a rollicking annual symposium and food-filled field trips that invite any curious eater to join the table and for aiming, always, to transcend race and class, the Southern Foodways Alliance, founded in 1999 and based in Oxford, Mississippi, deserves our obeisance. Members welcome.


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SFA Press: A Representative Sampling 

CBS Evening News

New York Times

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Gambit Weekly

Dallas Morning News

USA Today

Bittersweet: A culinary remembrance of New Orleans before Katrina and a report on its uncertain fate now
Creative Loafing

November 16, 2005

Pralines, Seasoned With Tears
The New York Times
November 2, 2005

Different Down There
National Review
September 26, 2005

Sweet Home Louisiana
The Atlantic Monthly
October 2005

Crawfish Etouffee Goes Into Exile
The New York Times
September 6, 2005

The Club From Nowhere: Cooking for Civil Rights
Morning Edition, NPR
March 4, 2005

South: An honest champion of foodways emerges
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
January 19, 2005

'04 Tastemaker Award Winner Amy Evans
Food & Wine
November 2004

Food for thought and alliances
The Chapel Hill News
October 27, 2004

Barbecue by the bootstraps: Book chronicles the rise of barbecue from mom-and-pop operations to fine dining, and all points in between
Times-Picayune
October 14, 2004

Could hominy bring harmony? Race, food on the table at session
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
October 10, 2004

Greens in black and white
The New York Times
October 6, 2004

Letter From Birmingham
Gastronomica
Fall 2004

Setting the Table in Black and White
The Commercial Appeal
June 27, 2004

The original PC – pimento cheese loyalty spread across south
The Commercial Appeal
October 29, 2003

Reporter's Notebook; Age-Old Culinary Questions Still Stir a Fire
The New York Times
Wednesday, October 23, 2002

The Southern Way
Chef, the Food Magazine for Professionals
September 2001

Scholars Ponder the Meaning of Grits
Wall Street Journal

November 28, 2000

Preserving the legacy of Southern food;
Lively fare: Symposium debates, celebrates region's famed multicultural flavor
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
November 3, 1999

Southern Comfort: Good Wines From Dixie
Wall Street Journal
September 24, 1998

Help the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrate, preserve, promote, and nurture the traditional and developing food culture of the American South.

Join us.