![]() is a metaphor for boiling down a pot of greens to its essence. As he explained to Arts Atlanta, “For so much of the South’s history, when you hear certain segments of the population talk about the region, they’re implying somehow that word South means white South and that the word southern means white culture,” he said. ![]() The book begins with acknowledgment that much of Southern cuisine is a direct product of African and African American influences. reports on 60-plus years of Southern food histories-from the innovative use of traditional dishes to advance the civil rights movement to today’s more modern attempts to demonstrate that Southern cuisine is more beautiful and complex than stereotypes suggest. ![]() Edge in his book, The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South. “Southern history encompasses migrations from Africa to the Americas, from farms to factories, from the rural South to the urban North and back again,” writes John T. ![]()
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