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In our next Hutchins Lecture, titled "Sustainable, Organic, & Slow: Restoring the Legacy of Black Family Farms," Chef & Farmer Matthew Raiford will discuss returning home after a quarter of a century to help restore his family farm. Gilliard Farms … Read more
This year's Global South Conference will focus on "The Local/Global Nexus" of Southern foodways. Please join us at the FedEx Global Education Center March 27-28! A full schedule is available here. The conference will culminate in this year's Chandler Lecture … Read more
Golden Arches and White Spaces: Race in Early Fast Food Places By the late twentieth century, fast food restaurants became a common feature of American life. Although this innovation, which brought food production into the factory age, was not a … Read more
Our first James and Marguerite Hutchins Lecture of the 2016-17 academic year, titled "Southern Hunger and the American Food System," will be presented by award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan. McMillan is author of the bestselling study The American Way of Eating: … Read more