Fried Neck Bones and Some Home Fries: Delectable History through Southern Regional Food

October 5, 2016 · by JS Epstein | in Book Reviews, The Story of Books | tagged 50th Anniversary Civil Rights Act, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Food transcends race and history, Indian Candy, John Currence, John Egerton, John T. Edge, Koolickle, Locovore, Ole Miss and race relations, Oxford Mississippi, Regional Food, SFA Symposium, Soul Food, Southern Belly, Southern Cookbooks, Southern Foodways Alliance, Southern Foodways Community Cookbook, Willie Mae's | 6 Comments

About this time, the editor, who is spending a total of three weeks in Morocco, is probably sick and tired of Moroccan food and is yearning, yes, licking her lips over the prospect of returning home to the South and eating a great big bowl of grits. Seems like a good time to revisit this […]

On the Southern Literary Trail: Yoknapatawpha County

September 30, 2014 · by Christina Kaylor | in Field Trips, Profiles | tagged Count No 'Count, Faulkner and Falkner family, Faulkner and Hollywood, Faulkner and Malcolm Cowley, Faulkner and mythmaking, Faulkner and Nobel Prize, Faulkner and Post Office, Faulkner and reception of novels, Faulkner and Stream-of-consciousness, Faulkner and the Past, Oxford Mississippi, Rowan Oak, Southern Literary Trail Mississippi, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, Yoknapatawpha County | 15 Comments

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it… –William Faulkner Faulkner’s little postage stamp was his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, immortalized as Jefferson, located in Yoknapatawpha County. Yoknapatawpha, from the Chickasaw yocona petopha, meaning water runs slow through […]