Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience

Bys: Stokes, Ashli Quesinberry and Atkins-Sayre, Wendy

2025 North Carolina Humanities North Carolina Reads pick

A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the region

Depictions of Appalachian food culture and practices often romanticize people in the region as good, simple, and, often, white. These stereotypes are harmful to the actual people they are meant to describe as well as to those they exclude. In Hungry Roots:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164336474X
• ISBN13: 9781643364742
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"