Food And The "New South"

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Food And The "New South"

Is there an answer to what defines Southern cooking? How waves of new residents -- and their cookbooks -- are reshaping the identities of Southern cities like Charlotte, N.C.

Few cities have grown faster in the past 25 years than Charlotte, N.C. But waves of new residents are also challenging the culinary cultures that have defined popular perceptions of the American South for decades. We explore what food says about regional identity in Charlotte and other rapidly-changing parts of the "New South."

Guests

Tom Hanchett

Historian, Levine Museum of the New South

Kathleen Purvis

Food Editor, The Charlotte Observer

John T. Edge

Director, Southern Foodways Alliance, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi; Columnist & Contributor, New York Times, the Oxford American and Garden & Gun

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