Recently added articles from Southern Cultures:
Canning tomatoes, growing "Better and More Perfect Women": the girls' tomato club movement.(ESSAY)
Dec 22, 2009; ... <Pre> Tomato Club. Tomato Club. See how we can. See how we can. Give us tomatoes and a good sharp knife-- This is the place to get a good wife. Did ever you see such girls in your life-- As the Tomato Club? --Tomato Club Song, c. 1914 (1) </Pre> [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Drum head stew: the power and poetry of terroir.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Eastern Shore of Virginia, a long narrow peninsula, projects roughly seventy miles southward from the Maryland state line to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The Atlantic Ocean bounds the two counties (Northampton and Accomack) on the east and the ...
"Peace and a smile to the lips": favorite southern food dishes.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2009; ... by some of our favorite southern food writers with an introduction by Kathleen Purvis [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You might want to handle these pages carefully. What you have in your hands isn't just a list of memories and tastes. It's an act of bravery akin to holding a ...
The edible South.(INTRODUCTION)(Essay)
Dec 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My mother-in-law, Shelby Flowers Ferris, has kept a daily journal for over forty years. These are not personal diaries in which she shares her "feelings"--which I imagine seem self-indulgent to such a practical woman--but rather carefully recorded details ...
Front porch.(Southern food)(Editorial)
Dec 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Some years ago, I participated in a frank and comradely exchange of views on the late unpleasantness with a nearby chapter of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars, the society for male descendants of Confederate military officers and government ...