Southern Foodways Alliance
- Location: University, United States of America
- http://www.southernfoodways.org
- http://www.gravypodcast.com/
The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
Based at the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture, we share oral histories, produce films and podcasts, publish great writing, sponsor scholarship, mentor students, and stage events that serve as progressive and inclusive catalysts for the greater South.
Donations from generous individuals, foundations, and companies fund our good work.
Series
161 Pieces
Gravy is the SFA’s collection of original stories—fresh, unexpected, and thought-provoking. Like all of the SFA’s work, Gravy shares stories of the changing American South through the foods we eat.
- From: Southern Foodways Alliance
- Updated: Nov 21, 2014
Pieces
Gravy takes us to North Carolina to consider the vehicles that our food sits on—plates.
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 25:01
Gravy takes listeners to Bayou La Batre, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, for the annual blessing of the fleet. But things look different this year.
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 26:17
Gravy digs into the history of beaten biscuits, the tender, flaky hardtack rolls that date back to the 1800s, and the success of entrepreneur Annie...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 25:28
Gravy asks how KFC became one of the most popular restaurant chains in China, and what its dominance reveals about other large Southern firms.
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 22:42
Black men have played a key role in Louisiana's oyster industry—but today, they are few and far between.
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 27:26
For centuries, Black Americans have been finding their own ways to feed themselves and their communities.
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 24:29
Gravy investigates why Houston is the center of a West African renaissance.
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 28:22
Gravy explores sweet potatoes, which Southern-born Black Americans have baked, roasted, fried, distilled—and long revered.
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 28:01
Gravy tells how Annie Laura Squalls created the famed Mile High Pie when she was head baker at The Caribbean Room, the in-house restaurant at New O...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 24:48
In this special interview edition of Gravy, Howard Conyers—a barbecue expert and NASA scientist—introduces listeners to a formative influence in hi...
- Added: Nov 11, 2022
- Length: 23:25
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