Southern Cultures: The Special Issue on Food

In the Spring 2012 issue of Southern CulturesGuest editor Marcie Cohen Ferris brings together some of the best new writing on Southern food for the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures , which features an interview with TREME writer Lolis Elie and Ferriss own retrospective on Southern sociology, the WPA, and Food in the New South. The Food issue includes Rebecca Sharpless on Southern women and rural food supplies, Bernard Herman on Theodore Peeds Turtle Party, Will Sextons Boomtown Rabbits: The Rabbit Market in Chatham County, North Carolina, Courtney Lewis on how the Case of the Wild Onions paved the way for Cherokee rights, poetry by Michael Chitwood, and much more.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills Center for the Study of the American South.