Southern Foodways Alliance

The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the changing American South. We set a common table where black and white, rich and poor—all who gather—may consider our history and our future in a spirit of reconciliation.

A member-supported non-profit, based at the University of Mississippi, we stage symposia on food culture, produce documentary films, collect oral histories, and publish compendiums of great writing. In the Atlantic Monthly, Corby Kummer dubbed the SFA “this country’s most intellectually engaged (and probably most engaging) food society.”

Documentary projects are central to the SFA’s mission. Oral history interviews and short documentary films not only preserve the stories of our region for future generations, they connect us to people and traditions that most of us take for granted every day.

For more information on SFA, visit their website.