Cornbread Nation 1: The Best of Southern Food Writing
John Egerton
(Editor)
Description
The first volume in what will be an annual collection, Cornbread Nation gathers the best of recent Southern food writing. In fifty entries--original features and selections previously published in magazines and journals--contributors celebrate the people, places, traditions, and tastes of the American South.In these pages, Nikki Giovanni expresses her admiration for the legendary Edna Lewis, James Villas remembers his friend Craig Claiborne, Rick Bragg thinks back on Thanksgivings at home, Robert Morgan describes the rituals of canning time, and Fred Chappell offers a contrarian's view of iced tea. "Collectively," writes John Egerton, these pieces "buttress our conviction that nothing else the South has to offer to the nation and the world--with the possible exception of its music--is more eternally satisfying, heartwarming, reconciling, and memorable than its food." With the publication of Cornbread Nation, we acknowledge with gratitude the abiding centrality of food in the ongoing life of the South.
Contributors include:
Colman Andrews
Jim Auchmutey
Roy Blount Jr.
Gene Bourg
Rick Bragg
Fred Chappell
Lolis Eric Elie
Damon Lee Fowler
Nikki Giovanni
Jessica Harris
Karen Hess
Jack Hitt
Ted & Matthew Lee
Ronni Lundy
Robert Morgan
James Villas
Robb Walsh
Product Details
Price
$28.95
$26.92
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Publish Date
October 14, 2002
Pages
272
Dimensions
6.14 X 9.22 X 0.65 inches | 0.89 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780807854198
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About the Author
JOHN EGERTON (1935-2013) had been a "professional South-watcher" for half a century. Beginning in high school in the 1950s, through two years in the U.S. Army, five years earning two college degrees, five more as a college news bureau reporter, six as a magazine writer, and for the past thirty-five years as an independent journalist and author, he seldom strayed far from his life's work: following the social and cultural, political and economic trends that forever have made the American South the unique place that it is, for better and worse. Until the publication of Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves, all his published writing, including more than fifteen books, has been classified as nonfiction. He called his new book "a fable ... a parable ... a cautionary tale" in the genre of "political science-fiction," and claimed that he "did not so much author it as synthesize it from hundreds of sources, compile it, and become by default the one to present it to the reading public. Fables don't have authors. They're found, heard, passed down.
Reviews
Southern food is legendary stuff, but Southern food writing may be even better, at least as exampled in these pages.
(John Thorne, author of "Serious Pig" and "Pot on the Fire")
Almost as good as months of roaming back roads and long talks over kitchen tables all over the South. Maybe it's better.(Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of public radio's "The Splendid Table")
A delicious feast, as well as a thoughtful celebration of regional culture. ("Kirkus Reviews")
Beautifully describes how food has shaped Southern, as well as American, culture. ("Southern Living")
Truly, there's just something about the South, its breezy characters, its off-the-edge eateries, and yes, its barbecue and batter bread. "Cornbread Nation" puts them all between two covers. (Jean Anderson, author of "The American Century Cookbook")
(John Thorne, author of "Serious Pig" and "Pot on the Fire")
Almost as good as months of roaming back roads and long talks over kitchen tables all over the South. Maybe it's better.(Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of public radio's "The Splendid Table")
A delicious feast, as well as a thoughtful celebration of regional culture. ("Kirkus Reviews")
Beautifully describes how food has shaped Southern, as well as American, culture. ("Southern Living")
Truly, there's just something about the South, its breezy characters, its off-the-edge eateries, and yes, its barbecue and batter bread. "Cornbread Nation" puts them all between two covers. (Jean Anderson, author of "The American Century Cookbook")
