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Gravy Is James Beard Publication of the Year

Read kind words from the James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards Committee about their Publication of the Year, Gravy quarterly and podcast from the Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA). Like all SFA work, Gravy shares stories of the changing American South through the foods we eat. Gravy showcases a South that is constantly evolving, accommodating new immigrants, adopting new traditions, and […]

Photo by Steve Freeman

Generous Gift Supports Southern Foodways Alliance

Kentucky couple creates Smith Symposium Fellows to support individuals doing notable foodways work.

Cathead Distillery owners Austin Evans, left, and Richard Patrick have committed support to undergird the efforts of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi.

Business Strengthens Study of Cultural Identity

Cathead Distillery supports UM Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Catarina Passidomo

Learning from the Study of Foodways

Private gifts play role in attracting expert in cultural geography, Catarina Passidomo.

Zac Henson, a post-doctoral fellow, teaches a foodways class in Barnard Observatory

Private Gifts Endow Foodways Professorship

UM searching for top scholar to fill position for 2014-15

Kate Medley: Good Food Documentarian

Kate Medley, M.A. Southern Studies, and her work as documentarian for the Whole Foods Market receive raves from the editors of Good Food Jobs on their GastroGnomes blog: “We have the urge to sum up Kate’s good food job in one word: dreamy. She’s got the fairytale spin of having stuck her foot in the door of a large, […]

The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South

Edited by John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, Elizabeth Engelhardt, and Ted Ownby, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and professor of history

SFA Oral Historian to Study the Upsouth: Anson Mills, Bond family give generously

A pair of generous gifts totaling $125,000 will allow the Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) at the University of Mississippi to support an additional oral historian and expand its oral history archive into the “Upsouth” region of Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas. With a planned gift of $50,000, Carmen and Matt Bond of Memphis, Tenn., have […]

Yazoo City’s Simmons Catfish Becomes Corporate Donor for Southern Foodways Alliance, UM Institute

Harry Simmons Jr. and Katy Simmons Prosser announce Simmons Catfish’s support of UM’s Southern Foodways Alliance. Simmons Farm Raised Catfish of Yazoo City, Miss., has joined the Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) as the organization’s newest corporate donor. The mission of the SFA, an institute of the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern […]

New Food Professorship Gets Support From Atlanta Couple

Donation will help endow professorship in expanding academic area. Kristie and Charles Abney of Atlanta have made a major gift to the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture, to help meet the goal of endowing a professorship in the growing academic study of foodways. […]