SFA Symposium Focuses
upon Race Relations
The seventh annual Southern Foodways Symposium will be
held October 7-10, 2004. This year we explore race through
the lens of foodways. We will study, debate, and celebrate
the South’s shared food culture by way of events that focus
upon race relations. SFA believes that racial chasms can be
bridged when we recognize our common humanity across a
table piled high with bowls of collard greens and platters of
cornbread. We believe that food is our region’s greatest
shared creation. And we see food as a unifier in a diverse
region, as a means by which we may address the issues that
have long vexed our homeland.

Birmingham Field Trip
Makes Financial Impact
For this year’s SFA Field Trip, held June 4-6 in and around
Birmingham, SFA pledged to make donations to Alabama
organizations that further the cause of racial justice. With
the support of members and attendees—not to mention some
speakers who waived remuneration—we are proud to
announce the following donations: $2,450 to bluesman
Willie King’s Rural Members Foundation, $750 to Sixteenth
Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, and $250 to West End
Camp Fire USA (a division of the Birmingham Second
Harvest/United Way).

Deviled Egg Invitational

The Southern Foodways Alliance seeks
deviled egg recipes and recollections. Let
the world know about how your family
reunions revolve around eating deviled
yard eggs. Tell us about how your aunt
piped her filling with a pastry bag. Tell us
a story of 100 or so words about what
deviled eggs have meant to you and your
people. Include a recipe and please detail the
recipe’s provenance.

E-mail submissions to develedeggs@olemiss.edu
are preferred. Entries may also be mailed to the
Southern Foodways Alliance, P.O. Box 1848, University,
MS 38677. Deadline for entries is August 31. Three finalists
will be announced on September 15. The winner will receive
a free pass to the Southern Foodways Symposium, to be
held October 7-10 in Oxford, Mississippi. That Friday,
the King or Queen of Deviled Eggs will be crowned
at a tasting of deviled eggs and champagne,
staged on the Oxford Square.
All qualifying entries will be included in an
online deviled egg diary that we’ll share with
the world by way of our Web site,
www.southernfoodways.com. (By the way,
when you send your deviled egg tale our way,
you grant us the right to publish it free of
charge, both online and as printed text.)
Questions should be directed to Melissa Hall,
Mistress of Deviled Eggs, at develidedeggs@olemiss.edu.