Cornbread Nation 3

The stories, poems, and essays gathered in Cornbread Nation 3: Foods of the Mountain Southwere born along the winding roads of Appalachia, in the vales of the Ozarks, and in the flatlands beyond, where mountain people traveled in the hillbilly diaspora. Here, wisdom is gleaned in coal-mining camps, at roadside vegetable stands, at dinners on church grounds, and on shady front porches. In these tantalizing pieces, leather britches are set to dry in a classic rite, the sweetness of corn approaches the divine, a bean without strings brooks no flavor, and the arrival of autumn brings the heady scent of the ripe and secretive pawpaw. The volume's contributors include trailblazing writers from the past and present--Tony Earley, Michael McFee, Marilou Awiakta, Frank X. Walker, and Harriet Arnow--who demonstrate the power of connectedness among families and neighbors and remind us that earth's greatest treasures grow from well-tended seeds. As a special bonus, this edition of the Southern Foodways Alliance annual anthology contains lyrics to the Cornbread Nation anthem by acclaimed West Virginia singer/songwriter Tim O'Brien.

Introduction	p. 1
I offer you a gift	p. 9
Compass for our journey	p. 10
Cornbread communion	p. 18
Two grandmothers	p. 20
A man and his beans	p. 23
Leatherbritches	p. 26
Beating the biscuits in Appalachia : race, class, and gender politics of women baking bread	p. 32
A theory of pole beans	p. 47
Where I'm from	p. 51
Raised by women	p. 52
Taking stock of being Appalachian	p. 54
Steep	p. 58
From oats to grits, mutton to pork : North British foodways in Southern Appalachia	p. 59
Plenty	p. 72
On the Appalachian trail	p. 73
Homesick	p. 78
The dollmaker	p. 80
Cooked food	p. 85
Grandma's table	p. 92
Roadside table	p. 100
Affrilachia	p. 102
Holy manna	p. 107
Ramp suppers, biodiversity, and the integrity of the mountains	p. 108
April in Helvetia : 1995	p. 117
A talk with Adriana Trigiani	p. 125
Two Americas, two restaurants, one town	p. 131
The anthropology of table manners from geophagy onward	p. 137
Syrup boiling	p. 144
To the unconverted	p. 151
Of possums and papaws	p. 153
A passion for bacon	p. 156
Mad squirrels and Kentuckians	p. 162
The oyster shucker's song	p. 180
The fruit of temptation	p. 191
A pawpaw primer	p. 197
Going for peaches, Fredericksburg, Texas	p. 203
Tales of dough and dowry : fried pies in Tennessee	p. 205
The pumpkin field	p. 209
Stand buy your yam : the lure of the Southern produce stand	p. 212
Farmer's market	p. 215
Of sorghum syrup, cushaws, mountain barbecue, soup beans, and black iron skillets	p. 216
A garden in Kentucky	p. 226
Of fall days and harvesting, and falling in love	p. 227
Back to the bayou	p. 247
Bill	p. 252
Falling for my husband	p. 257
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