More on the Food Issue & Free DVD
IT'S READY. WE'RE SERVING UP OUR FIRST SPECIAL FOOD ISSUE.
ESSAYS, RECIPES, REVIEWS, MEMORIES, FAVORITE DISHES, AND A FREE DVD FULL OF THE BEST SHORT FOOD FILMS COLLECTED ANYWHERE. ORDER HERE. 
THE EDIBLE SOUTH'S TABLE OF CONTENTS IS BELOW.
Front Porch by Harry L. Watson "We parted in warm, brotherly agreement about the ambrosial qualities of great down-home cooking, and I drove off shaking my head over people who could share so much around the table yet struggle so bitterly over other things."
The Edible South by Marcie Cohen Ferris "Even as southern populations (and landscapes) have evolved, food and place remain indelibly linked in the southern imagination."
Peace and a Smile to the Lips": Favorite Southern Food Dishes by some of our favorite southern food writers, with an introduction by Kathleen Purvis "What you have in your hands isn't just a list of memories and tastes. It's an act of bravery akin to holding a lit stick of TNT."
Drum Head Stew: The Power and Poetry of Terroir by Bernard L. Herman "Oh Violet, keep the head on the fish, because I want my eyeballs."
Wormsloe's Belly: Understanding the History of a Southern Plantation through Food by Drew A. Swanson "The plantation's residents were such voracious drinkers that the remains of wine bottles were the most reliable way to date colonial discoveries during excavation of the old fort site."
Chance Meetings and Back Roads: Making Connections through Food photographs by Amy C. Evans "He was forced into retirement after Hurricane Katrina, but The Professor, as he's known, is still a walking encyclopedia of New Orleans cocktail history."
Canning Tomatoes, Growing "Better and More Perfect Women": The Girls' Tomato Club Movement by Elizabeth Engelhardt "If somebody were to tell you that a group of little country girls who never have been near a big city have built up a business so large and important that papers all over the country are telling about it, you would think it was a new kind of fairy tale."
Eat It to Save It: April McGreger in Conversation with Tradition by Whitney E. Brown "There is a deep, pulsing current of heritage and emotion when your hands are in the dirt, and that's a feeling worth recapturing in the age of the iPhone."
Supper in the Stacks: Reading the Lupton African American Cookbook Collection by John T. Edge "'My cooking is referred to as yo-yo cooking, because the recipes found in this book will make your drawers drop down to your knees and pop back up to your neck.'"
Food for Thought: Race, Region, Identity, and Foodways in the American South by Beth A. Latshaw "I've eaten it all my life, and I'm not dead yet."
"Gravy" poetry by Michael McFee ". . . where fat becomes faith, where juice conveys grace . . ."
Thanksgiving Ghosts by Mary Ann Sternberg "Your cookbook," she related with obvious pride, "was published in 1897."
Red Gravy by Elizabeth M. Williams "All self-respecting Sicilians disdained red gravy."
And it all comes with the best collection of short food films anywhere, on Put It on the Skillet, the FREE DVD.
