Southern Foodways Alliance Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Field Peas to Foie Gras: Southern Recipes with a French Accent
Jennifer Booker
Tomorrow, we’ll be joined by @ChefJennBooker, author of Field Peas to Foie Gras, for a special segment of SFA Cooking School. She’ll show us how to make a peach cobbler on Instagram Live tomorrow at 6pm ET | 5pm CT. Check out the recipe and get ready to cook along with chef Jenn! https://t.co/E4ZSfQ4n7g
Hardcover, 2014
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
Bartow J. Elmore
Oxford friends, join SFA and @OleMiss's Dept. of Writing and Rhetoric next Wednesday for a conversation with @BartElmore and @johntedge as they discuss Elmore's book "Citizen Coke: the Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism." Hope to see you there! https://t.co/DPhpAVOY53
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Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America
Gustavo Arellano
@GustavoArellano is a columnist with the @latimes, host of its daily news podcast, The Times, and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. He’s been a Gravy columnist for 5 years. https://t.co/jkrAs5sZZ3
Paperback, 2013
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin
Janice N. Harrington
Janice N. Harrington’s latest book of poetry is Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin. She is the author of two previous poetry collections, Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone and The Hands of Strangers, as well as several award-winning children’s books. https://t.co/0hmfR9R2LV
Paperback, 2016
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home
Janice N. Harrington
Janice N. Harrington’s latest book of poetry is Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin. She is the author of two previous poetry collections, Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone and The Hands of Strangers, as well as several award-winning children’s books. https://t.co/0hmfR9R2LV
Paperback, 2011
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nashville: An American Self Portrait
John Egerton
Join SFA at the @SoFestofBooks in Nashville tomorrow, October 15, as we present the 2022 John Egerton Prize to @ImaniBlackMIA, founder of the nonprofit organization @mia_npo. Black will be in conversation with author @silasdhouse and SFA managing editor @SaraCampArnold. https://t.co/WT0HcPOJeb
Hardcover, 2005
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island
Emily Meggett
@Kayla_S_Stewart is the co-author, with Emily Meggett, of @nytimes bestseller "Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island" and is the co-author of the forthcoming cookbook, "Black Texas," with chef Christopher Williams.
Hardcover, 2022
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Southern Foodways Alliance Guide to Cocktails
Sara Camp Milam
Planning your holiday brunch menu? Add milk punch. It’s the perfect drink to mark festive daytime occasions, like opening presents on a holiday morning. Try @BrennansNOLA's recipe, printed in the Southern Foodways Alliance Guide to Cocktails by @SaraCampArnold & Jerry Slater. https://t.co/H6f56u9GVc
Hardcover, 2017
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Knot Today
Tara
SFA managing editor @SaraCampArnold opens the new issue of #Gravy journal with an anecdote about her quarantine hobby in her editor’s note, “Knot Today.” The fall issue of Gravy is now available to purchase from @HubCityPress. Get your copy here: https://t.co/rJEPkUtH13 https://t.co/uVd8YT9q6z
Paperback, 2011
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
Bartow J. Elmore
Read @BartElmore’s excerpt from “Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future,” which details how agrochemical companies sold farmers a food future that is actually a toxic past, in #Gravy, available for a limited time online: https://t.co/ofeNiWYPrI
Hardcover, 2021
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book