Blue Willow Plates & Black Iron Skillets:

A guide to sources on Southern food and foodways

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Professional Associations, Groups, Clubs, or Conferences

Slow Food USA
http://www.slowfoodusa.org/

The U.S. arm of the organization Slow Food International is “dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production; to the revival of the kitchen and the table as centers of pleasure, culture, and community; to the invigoration and proliferation of regional, seasonal culinary traditions; to the creation of a collaborative, ecologically-oriented, and virtuous globalization; and to living a slower and more harmonious rhythm of life” (Slow Food USA, “About Us” http://www.slowfoodusa.org/about/index.html).

The organization works to save endangered slow foods from extinction and to educate consumers about the benefits of slow food. While not all of the organization’s work is uniquely Southern, many of the endangered foods it attempts to preserve are.
Information about joining Slow Food USA is available at
http://www.slowfoodusa.org/join/index.html

Members are invited to join a convivium of other Slow Food supporters who live in their area.
http://www.slowfoodusa.org/contact/index.html

The organization maintains an online forum at
http://www.slowfoodforum.org/

Southern Foodways Alliance
http://www.southernfoodways.com/index.shtml

The Alliance is housed at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Board members are unpaid, and include many of the cooks and food writers whose works appear in this reference guide. Membership is open to anyone interested in documenting, preserving, and eating examples of traditional Southern foodways. The Alliance publishes the Cornbread Nation series of anthologies and the Southern Foodways Register newsletter, both mentioned elsewhere in this guide. The Alliance's newsletter focusing on current events and publications, Gravy, is available at
http://www.southernfoodways.com/gravy.shtml

The Alliance offers a page of resources consolidated from past years' events and publications at
http://www.southernfoodways.com/resources.shtml

The Alliance sponsors one major scholarly symposium:
Southern Foodways Symposium
Details and programs from the first 8 symposia, from 1998 through 2005, are available at
http://www.southernfoodways.com/sym_past.shtml

The Alliance also organizes short trips throughout the year, called Field Trips.
Past Field Trip descriptions are available at
http://www.southernfoodways.com/sym_fieldtrippast.shtml

Single-day trips, called Day Camps, are occasionally organized around a specific theme. Past Day Camp descriptions are available at
http://www.southernfoodways.com/sym_daycamppast.shtml

Information about joining the Southern Foodways Alliance is available at
http://www.southernfoodways.com/join.shtml