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Record Nr.

UNINA9910985643803321

Autore

Stokes Ashli Quesinberry

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of South Carolina Press, 2024

Columbia : , : University of South Carolina Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9781643364759

1643364758

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 pages)

Classificazione

LAN015000TRV026120

Altri autori (Persone)

Atkins-SayreWendy

Disciplina

394.1/20975

Soggetti

Food habits - Appalachian Region, Southern

Food - Social aspects - Appalachian Region, Southern

Cooking - Appalachian Region, Southern - History

Cooking, American - Southern style - History

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric

TRAVEL / Special Interest / Culinary

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- HUNGRY ROOTS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Why Appalachian Food (Still) Matters -- Chapter 1 Regional Resilience in Appalachian Foodways -- Chapter 2 Dualchas, Connection, and Food Migration in Appalachia’s Culinary Tradition -- Chapter 3 Moonshine Mythologies in Appalachian Public Memory -- Chapter 4 Creating Resilient Tourism in Appalachia -- Chapter 5 Community and Food Care Rhetoric -- Chapter 6 Digging Deeper into Appalachia’s Stories of Resilience -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"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: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre tell a more complicated story. The authors embark on a cultural tour through food and drinking establishments to investigate regional resilience in and through the plurality of traditions and communities that form the foodways of Southern Appalachia. They visit cafes serving cornbread and beans, a critically acclaimed soul food restaurant, distilleries, festivals celebrating Cherokee and Scottish heritage, a community center and garden serving under-resourced neighbors, and many other food and drinking venues. Hungry Roots demonstrates why Appalachian food still matters"--