I m not much of a cook, but I m looking at recipes and getting hungry. Those recipes are in Crescent Dragonwagon s delightful 30th anniversary edition of "Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook," which was released by the University of Arkansas Press in 2021.
all we re doing is doing what we do. anthony: there is a discomfort level about exploring southern foodways, or particularly mississippi foodways. when you re talking about high-end, traditional southern cooking, you re talking plantation, slavery cooking, cause that s where these recipes came from. so to revel in that you don t wanna tumble into nostalgia you the potential for awkwardness, uh, and offense, is enormous. john t. edge: right. i wanna be careful. i m not saying that s what i want the south to be. i m saying that s what people come to the south looking for. anthony: right. john t. edge: they come to the south looking for the past preserved in amber. but the reality is something different. i don t wanna fix the past. i don t wanna fix it in 1865, or 1965. i want it to progress and change. i wanna document the change along the way and celebrate that change. the burden of race is upon us and we ain t gonna shake it. and that can make us better.