Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing Book

Introduction     1
Spring   Edna Lewis     5
Louisiana and the Gulf Coast: Before
Tabasco: Edmund McIlhenny and the Birth of a Louisiana Pepper Sauce   Shane K. Bernard     13
Boudin and Beyond   Mary Tutwiler     20
First You Make a Roux   Terri Pischoff Wuerthner     26
A Lunchtime Institution Overstuffs Its Last Po' Boy   R. W. Apple Jr.     32
Apalachicola   Amy Evans     37
The Natural   Brett Anderson     53
Louisiana and the Gulf Coast: After
This Isn't the Last Dance   Rick Bragg     69
Letter from New Orleans   Lolis Eric Elie     71
From the Crescent City to the Bayou City   Peggy Grodinsky     78
A Meal to Remember   Judy Walker     83
Comforting Food: Recapturing Recipes Katrina Took Away   Rick Brooks     88
Willie Mae's Scotch House   Jim Auchmutey     93
Crab Man   Robb Walsh     97
Interlude: The Lowcountry
Lowcountry Lowdown   Jack Hitt     109
Carolina Comfort, out of Africa   Matt Lee   Ted Lee     115
Sweet Things
Sugar: Savior orSatan?   Molly O'Neill     121
Molasses-Colored Glasses   Frederick Douglass Opie     130
The Genie in the Bottle of Red Food Coloring   Beth Ann Fennelly     139
Corndog Nation
Store Lunch   Jerry Leath Mills     145
The South's Love Affair with Soft Drinks   Tom Hanchett     147
The Moon Pie: A Southern Journey   William Ferris     153
Mountain Dogs   Fred Sauceman     160
Scattered, Smothered, Covered, and Chunked: Fifty Years of the Waffle House   Candice Dyer     166
Let Us Now Praise Fabulous Cooks   John T. Edge     172
Downhome Food
Molly Mooching on Bradley Mountain   Mary Hufford     181
Deep Roots   Wendell Brock     189
Tough Enough: The Muscadine Grape   Simone Wilson     194
Making a Mess of Poke   Dan Huntley     196
Green Party   Julia Reed     201
Something Special   Carroll Leggett     206
Cornbread in Buttermilk   Michael McFee     211
Salt   Michael McFee     212
Pork Skins   Michael McFee     214
Rinds    Fred Thompson     216
Late-Night Chitlins with Momma   Audrey Petty     218
No Bones about It   Carol Penn-Romine     222
The Way of All Flesh   Hal Crowther     224
By the Silvery Shine of the Moon   Jim Myers     228
Downhome Places
Is There a Difference between Southern and Soul?   Shaun Chavis     237
Movement Food   Bernard Lafayette     245
Ricky Parker   David Leite     252
Home away from Home Cookin'   Deb Barshafsky     256
The Cypress Grill   T. Edward Nickens     261
Compare and Contrast
Roll Over, Escoffier   Jim Ferguson     267
Wie Geht's, Y'all? German Influences in Southern Cooking   Fred R. Reenstjerna     270
Living North/Eating South   Jessica B. Harris     273
Why Jews Don't Get Quail   Marcie Cohen Ferris     275
Southern by the Grits of God   Timothy C. Davis     279
Ziti vs. Kentucky   Cindy Lamb     282
Dennis Water Cress   Christopher Lang     285
Frank Stitt   Pat Conroy     288
Benediction   The Reverend Will D. Campbell     293
Contributors     299
Acknowledgments     303