Blue Willow Plates & Black Iron Skillets:

A guide to sources on Southern food and foodways

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These Web sites provide links to primary and secondary sources that are both fascinating reading and excellent research material. Several will also link to further sources of interest.

Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/
Web site contains links to the Center’s mission of Southern Studies, news on events and conferences, descriptions of documentary projects, and links to Center publications and media outlets, University archives, and a list of further online resources. Of note for this research guide is the Center’s link to the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.

Hidden Kitchens: An ongoing series exploring the world of hidden kitchens: street corner cooking, legendary meals and eating traditions…how communities come together through food.
Produced by the Kitchen Sisters, Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, with Jay Allison.
Broadcast on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition since July 2004.
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/hiddenkitchens/
Web site provides access to archived streaming audio of broadcast stories, web extras for each story, recipes, essays, and links to the Hidden Kitchens book and audio CD set that has resulted from the audio series.

Southern Foodways Alliance
http://www.southernfoodways.com/index.shtml
Housed by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, the Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) attempts to preserve “Southern foodways history and tradition through an extensive program of oral history collection and archival research” (“About the SFA”: http://www.southernfoodways.com/about.shtml). The Alliance also sponsors the Southern Foodways Symposium.

Tending the Commons: folklife and landscape in southern West Virginia. Library of Congress, American Memory - Culture and Folklife collections.
Exerpts from the American Folklife Center’s Coal River Folklife Project, 1992-1999. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/tending/
Electronic collection includes essays, photographs, sound recordings, manuscripts, and maps documenting the folk and food practices of West Virginia’s Big Coal River Valley.