The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Culture Copy Share Image
Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples. — Marcie Cohen Ferris Food Copy Share Image
The working poor in the South are often blamed for their reliance on "traditional" Southern food, while in reality, most are eating… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Eating Copy Share Image
Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans. — Marcie Cohen Ferris Culture Copy Share Image
The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Abundance Copy Share Image
Food is an important lens onto the civil rights movement. One of the central issues of the movement was the right to… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Battle Copy Share Image
If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think.… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Audience Copy Share Image
Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Care Copy Share Image
The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Food Copy Share Image
I think about what I eat every day. I try to eat as locally as I can and as healthily as I… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Character Copy Share Image
Terroir - the taste of place - was important from the early South of the first Indian, African, and Europeans to the… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Food Copy Share Image
In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Class struggle Copy Share Image
Historically, women's voices were central to food narratives, yet they were marginalized, and what happened at the table, the kitchen, the garden,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Food Copy Share Image
If there was ever a food that had politics behind it, it is soul food. Soul food became a symbol of the… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
While I felt very much a Southerner as a child, being Jewish gave me an outsider's perspective. People look at region in… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Age Copy Share Image
