Southern Provisions: The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine

by David S. Shields

Book Overview

Southern food is America's quintessential cuisine. From creamy grits to simmering pots of beans and greens, we think we know how these classic foods should taste. Yet the southern food we eat today tastes almost nothing like the dishes our ancestors enjoyed, because the varied crops and livestock that originally defined this cuisine have largely disappeared. Now a growing movement of chefs and farmers is seeking to change that by recovering the rich...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022614111X
• ISBN13: 9780226141114
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.8" x 9.1"