The Potlikker Papers
Book description
“The one food book you must read this year."
—Southern Living
One of Christopher Kimball’s Six Favorite Books About Food
A people’s history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades
Like great provincial dishes around the world,…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Potlikker Papers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is a people’s history of the modern south, told through what people in the region have cooked and eaten.
Edge is my former student who became the founding director of the Southern Food Alliance and the author of more than a dozen books on food.
He tells a story of what the modern South inherited in terms of cooking ingredients, techniques, and traditions, and he shows the central role that cooks and waiters served in the civil rights movement. He is particularly adept at sketching profiles of southern food leaders from Paul Prudhomme to Colonel Sanders.
The book…
From Charles' list on savoring Southern foods.
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