Food Lit & Cookbook Bookclub - NEA Big Read The Potlikker Papers

A monthly book club that centers around the themes of food, cooking & eating. Books and discussions range from ingredients & flavors to health, policy, people and the environment.

October Meeting: As part of the NEA 2018 Big Read we will be discussing The Potlikker Papers. The book offers a food history of the modern south.

THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tells the story of food and politics in the South over the last half century. Beginning with the pivotal role of cooks in the Civil Rights movement, noted authority John T. Edge narrates the South's journey from racist backwater to a hotbed of American immigration. In so doing, he traces how the food of the poorest Southerners has become the signature trend of modern American haute cuisine. This is a people's history of the modern South told through the lens of food.