3.00 Credits
This course presents students with an opportunity to explore the history of the American South through its foodways with attention to historic and contemporary race relations, gender roles, migration and immigration patterns, urbanization and industrialization, and other major historical phenomena. In this class, students will critically examine southern foodways, which refers to study of why and what people eat and its meaning. It entails many different processes: cultivation and production, distribution, marketing, preparation, and consumption. By studying southern foodways, students will learn also learn about climate, labor systems, government intervention, and more. Offered every 3 to 4 semesters.