Hungry Roots
How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience
Wendy Atkins-Sayre author Ashli Quesinberry Stokes author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of South Carolina Press
Published:31st May '24
£98.00
This title is due to be published on 31st May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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.
ISBN: 9781643364735
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252 pages