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Title The potlikker papers : a food history of the modern South / John T. Edge.
Author Edge, John T., author.
Publication Info. New York, New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
©2017
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 Fairview Shores  641.5975 EDG    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  641.5975 EDG    Check Shelves
 Washington Park  641.5975 EDG    Checked Out
Description x, 370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Potlikker: an introduction -- Freedom struggles (1950s-1970s) -- Kitchen tables -- Restaurant theaters -- Poor power -- Black power -- Rise of the folk (1970s & 1980s) -- Landed hippies -- Faster food -- Carter country -- Black pastorals -- Gentrification (1980s & 1990s) -- Kingmaker and kings -- Generation grits -- Cooking school -- New respect (1990s-2010s) -- Artisanal pantry -- Restaurant renaissance -- Pits and pitmasters -- Future tenses (2010s forward) -- Political reckonings -- Nuevo sud -- Shared palates: an afterword.
Summary "A people's history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades"--Amazon.com.
Subject Cooking, American -- Southern style.
Food -- Southern States -- History.
Cooking -- U.S. -- Southern States.
Cooking -- Regional & ethnic.
ISBN 9781594206559 hardcover : $28.00
1594206554 hardcover