{"product_id":"cornbread-nation-1-the-best-of-southern-food-writing-9780807854198","title":"Cornbread Nation 1: The Best of Southern Food Writing","description":"The first volume in what will be an annual collection, \u003ci\u003eCornbread Nation\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the best of recent Southern food writing. In fifty entries--original features and selections previously published in magazines and journals--contributors celebrate the people, places, traditions, and tastes of the American South. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these pages, Nikki Giovanni expresses her admiration for the legendary Edna Lewis, James Villas remembers his friend Craig Claiborne, Rick Bragg thinks back on Thanksgivings at home, Robert Morgan describes the rituals of canning time, and Fred Chappell offers a contrarian's view of iced tea. \"Collectively,\" writes John Egerton, these pieces \"buttress our conviction that nothing else the South has to offer to the nation and the world--with the possible exception of its music--is more eternally satisfying, heartwarming, reconciling, and memorable than its food.\" With the publication of \u003ci\u003eCornbread Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, we acknowledge with gratitude the abiding centrality of food in the ongoing life of the South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors include: \u003cbr\u003eColman Andrews \u003cbr\u003eJim Auchmutey\u003cbr\u003eRoy Blount Jr. \u003cbr\u003eGene Bourg\u003cbr\u003eRick Bragg \u003cbr\u003eFred Chappell \u003cbr\u003eLolis Eric Elie \u003cbr\u003eDamon Lee Fowler\u003cbr\u003eNikki Giovanni \u003cbr\u003eJessica Harris \u003cbr\u003eKaren Hess \u003cbr\u003eJack Hitt\u003cbr\u003eTed \u0026amp; Matthew Lee\u003cbr\u003eRonni Lundy \u003cbr\u003eRobert Morgan \u003cbr\u003eJames Villas\u003cbr\u003eRobb Walsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEgerton, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - John Egerton is a journalist and author whose books include the award-winning \u003ci\u003eSouthern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSpeak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee. General editor John T. Edge is executive director of the Southern Foodways Alliance in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1999, the SFA works to celebrate, preserve, promote, and nurture the diverse food cultures of the American South. Its members include scholars, chefs, cookbook authors, journalists, and farmers.","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328631902482,"sku":"9780807854198","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_108477dd-4d85-42e3-8bb1-80ca7ad7b93f.jpg?v=1727746151","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cornbread-nation-1-the-best-of-southern-food-writing-9780807854198","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}