THE POTLIKKER PAPERS begins in 1955 as black cooks and maids fed and supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott and it concludes in 2015 as a Newer South came to be, enriched by the arrival of immigrants from Lebanon to Vietnam to all points in between.Īlong the way, THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tracks many different evolutions of Southern identity -first in the 1970s, from the back-to-the-land movement that began in the Tennessee hills to the rise of fast and convenience foods modeled on Southern staples. Access to food and ownership of culinary tradition was a central part of the long march to racial equality. This is a people's history of the modern South told through the lens of food.įood was a battleground in the Civil Rights movement. In so doing, he traces how the food of the poorest Southerners has become the signature trend of modern American haute cuisine. Edge narrates the South's journey from racist backwater to a hotbed of American immigration. Beginning with the pivotal role of cooks in the Civil Rights movement, noted authority John T.
THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tells the story of food and politics in the South over the last half century. A people's history of Southern food that reveals how the region came to be at the forefront of American culinary culture and how issues of race have shaped Southern cuisine over the last six decades
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