Scarlett O'Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry
again. Vardaman Bundren ate bananas in Faulkner's Jefferson, and
the Invisible Man dined on a sweet potato in Harlem. Although food
and stories may be two of the most prominent cultural products
associated with the South, the connections between them have not
been thoroughly explored until now.
Southern food has become the subject of increasingly
self-conscious intellectual consideration. The Southern Foodways
Alliance, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, food-themed issues
of "Oxford American" and "Southern Cultures," and a spate of new
scholarly and popular books demonstrate this interest. "Writing in
the Kitchen" explores the relationship between food and literature
and makes a major contribution to the study of both southern
literature and of southern foodways and culture more widely.
This collection examines food writing in a range of literary
expressions, including cookbooks, agricultural journals, novels,
stories, and poems. Contributors interpret how authors use food to
explore the changing South, considering the ways race, ethnicity,
class, gender, and region affect how and what people eat. They
describe foods from specific southern places such as New Orleans
and Appalachia, engage both the historical and contemporary South,
and study the food traditions of ethnicities as they manifest
through the written word.
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