Welcome to the SFA

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.

'04 Tastemaker Award Winner Amy Evans

By Elizabeth Alsop
Food & Wine
November 2004

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With a mini-disc recorder, a ready appetite and a 1978 Ford pickup, Amy Evans is compiling a culinary history of the American South, one interview at a time. As associate director of the Southern Foodways Alliance's Oral History Initiative, Evans, 33, travels through the South finding subjects – waitresses, pit masters, tamale makers – whose memories chronicle disappearing Southern life. She's building an archive of materials from photos to audio recordings and making them available on the Web. "Amy is creating a record of a time, a place adn a people," says her boss, food historian John T. Edge. "And in 40 years we'll want to know about it" (southernfoodways.com).

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