The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region cookbook If we are what we

If we are what we eat

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The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region cookbook If we are what weAuthor: Marcie Cohen Ferris In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whites, blacks, Native Americans, and other people of the region to control the nourishment of their bodies and minds, livelihoods, lands, and citizenship. The experience of food serves as an evocative lens onto colonial