to share how he selected these characters. shows how working class foods became the new baseline for today’s inspired American cuisine.įocusing on early moments in the first half of Potlikker Papers, we asked John T. The Potlikker Papers begins in the 1950s, during the early stages of the civil rights movement, and closes in the 2010s, as El Sur Latino comes into focus. We know we’re biased, but we think this project is a soaring, powerful contribution to the conversation about our ever-changing region, told through the narratives of the farmers and cooks and waiters who did the work. The Potlikker Papers comes out May 16, 2017. This book is an attempt to track the revolutions, minor and major, that have transformed the South over the last sixty years. This one includes a foreword as homage to John Egerton, inspired by the words John T. has now edited or written more than a dozen books. Edge and Penguin Press publish The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South. John T. Editor’s note: This May, SFA director John T.
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