Southern Foodways Alliance
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
P.O. Box 1848, Barnard Observatory
University MS 38677
(662) 915-5993

The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.

We stage symposia on food culture, produce documentary films, publish compendiums of great writing, and — perhaps most importantly — preserve, promote, and chronicle our region’s culinary standard bearers. We’re talking white tablecloth chefs and fried chicken cooks, barbecue pitmasters and peanut farmers.

The SFA is a member-supported organization of more than 800 people. Chefs and academics, writers and eaters: all are active participants. Though we are a lean and efficient organization, our work has great impact. In the Atlantic Monthly, Corby Kummer dubbed the SFA “this country’s most intellectually engaged food society.”

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.