Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium Tells Stories Of Food

By Susan Swagler

Storytelling and food are two things that Southerners do very well. So it makes sense to talk about how food has influenced our South and how the ever-changing culture here is increasingly reflected in the foods we share.

That’s exactly what happened at the Southern Foodways Alliance 2018 Winter Symposium, which has found a new, permanent home in Birmingham.

“The Southern Foodways Alliance tells stories about the South,” says SFA director John T. Edge. “We tell stories that we think will change people’s perceptions about the South, might change understandings about the South. And we’ve begun to tell those stories out of Birmingham. We think Birmingham is a citadel city of the South. If you want to tell stories about the food culture of the South, the drink culture of the South, this is the place to start.” More than 150 people from all over the country gathered in Birmingham this past weekend to talk about what it means to produce, grow, cook, eat and love food in the South. They were James Beard Foundation Award-winning restaurateurs and chefs as well as some of the latest crop of nominees. They were coffee growers, food writers, oral historians, educators, activists, photographers, farmers, and filmmakers. And some were there simply because they love Southern food.

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