Eating Quote by Marcie Cohen Ferris

Food is an important lens onto the civil rights movement. One of the central issues of the movement was the right to eat in…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table, we must…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Historically, women's voices were central to food narratives, yet they were marginalized, and what happened at the table, the kitchen, the garden, and the…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Terroir - the taste of place - was important from the early South of the first Indian, African, and Europeans to the nineteenth-century South.…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

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

Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern food -…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way their region…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think. I hear…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

I think about what I eat every day. I try to eat as locally as I can and as healthily as I can. When…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

While I felt very much a Southerner as a child, being Jewish gave me an outsider's perspective. People look at region in a variety…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

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

In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle, extreme hunger,…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris