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Hungry roots : how food communicates Appalachia's search for resilience / Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre.

Summary:

"A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the region. Depictions of Appalachian food culture and practices often romanticize people in the region as good, simple, and, often, white. These stereotypes are harmful to the actual people they are meant to describe as well as to those they exclude. In Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre tell a more complicated story. The authors embark on a cultural tour through food and drinking establishments to investigate regional resilience in and through the plurality of traditions and communities that form the foodways of Southern Appalachia. They visit cafes serving cornbread and beans, a critically acclaimed soul food restaurant, distilleries, festivals celebrating Cherokee and Scottish heritage, a community center and garden serving under-resourced neighbors, and many other food and drinking venues. Hungry Roots demonstrates why Appalachian food still matters." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781643364742
  • ISBN: 164336474X
  • ISBN: 9781643364735
  • Physical Description: x, 241 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2024]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-231) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Why Appalachian food (still) matters -- Regional resilience in Appalachian foodways -- Dualchas, connection, and food migration in Appalachia's culinary tradition -- Moonshine mythologies in Appalachian public memory -- Creating resilient tourism in Appalachia -- Community and food care rhetoric -- Digging deeper into Appalachia's stories of resilience.
Subject:
Food habits > Appalachian Region, Southern.
Food > Social aspects > Appalachian Region, Southern.
Cooking > Appalachian Region, Southern > History.
Cooking, American > Southern style > History.

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