Welcome to the SFA

Welcome to the Southern Foodways Alliance -- an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture with headquarters at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.

The Southern Foodways Alliance documents and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the American South. We set a common table where black and white, rich and poor -- all who gather-- may consider our history and our future in a spirit of reconciliation.

For 2005, the SFA focuses primarily upon sugar and the sweet life.

The Southern Foodways Symposium in Oxford will be October 27-30, with the Delta Divertissement (to Greenwood) October 26-27. Look for details here in late July.

We have also launched a series of SFA Day Camps. The first, Camp Bacon, will be September 16 in Louisville, Kentucky. Download the registration PDF (244KB)

Download your Camp Bacon Handbook! Click here.  (PDF format, 88KB)

Click here to download the Camp Bacon Menu.

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Help the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrate, preserve, promote, and nurture the traditional and developing food culture of the American South.

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The Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame Award

Each fall, the SFA (with support from the Fertel Foundation) honors an unsung hero or heroine, a foodways tradition bearer of note, with the Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame Award.

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