Sublime

Here’s a cheat sheet of yummy alky food and drink—have your fill!

According to epidemiologists and physicians, Southerners weigh too much, have too much tooth decay, eat too much fat, and drink too much coke. We cushion against the hurt with the abundance of love found in food. And we revel in taking up space with sayings: “Only a dog wants a bone,” we say. The constraints are rarely mentioned: overwork, poverty,

Clean Old-fashioned Hate

If you take an “Are You Southern?” data-mining-type test on social media, one of the questions will inevitably be: “Do you call soft drinks soda, pop, or coke?” The last one is supposed to be the correct answer, but that’s not true everywhere in the South. Rather, it evidences the power of Atlanta as siphon and signifier. And it underscores one of

In Savannah, she recommended that members of the writing workshop eat at the Grey Market, where she worked part-time. It is a New York bodega-inspired offshoot of the Grey, Mashama Bailey’s fine-dining Savannah restaurant. Bailey, a Black woman who moved between Georgia and New York throughout her childhood, learned to cook first from the women in

I’ve always rejected the tendency to talk about Southern food as unhealthy. Greens, beans, corn, and even freshly slaughtered meat, the mainstays of our foodways, are, relative to the standard American diet, quite healthy. Our nutritional deprivation these days is more than anything a consequence of fast food, mass production, and poverty. But I th