Jun 26, 2020
This time of year, you have to get out early to the greenhouses at Bulls Bay Saltworks. The sun and humidity are already bearing down on the day by 10 a.m. so in order to spend time tending and harvesting the salt farm, Teresa Smithmyer has to be finishing her day in the field then, not beginning it. The salt grows...
Jun 19, 2020
Eastern North Carolina is a place of flat fields to the horizon, small corner stores, barbecue spots that are only open Thursday-Saturday, and as Shorlette Ammons says, more pigs than people. She’s a native of Mount Olive, North Carolina, where she grew up in a large family of farmworkers, cooks, and storytellers, and...
Jun 12, 2020
It seems the idea of American home cooking is back. For some of us, it never really left, but irregardless, I’d suggest that one of the most satisfying home cooked meals is a roasted chicken. I hate to brag, but it’s my specialty, and although I’ve tried many recipes for them, my favorite to date has been the...
Jun 5, 2020
Now, Southern foodways is my professional geography. It’s what I know, and it’s what eventually lured me away from academia and into the consumer writing space full-time. Race is indelibly a part of Southern foodways, and through the interviews in the five years of this show, discussion about race has intermittently...