num_pages: 296
description: Marcie Cohen Ferris gathers a constellation of leading journalists farmers chefs entrepreneurs scholars and food activistsalong with photographer Baxter Miller to offer a deeply immersive portrait of North Carolinas contemporary food landscape. Ranging from manifesto to elegy Edible North Carolina's essays photographs interviews and recipes combine for a beautifully revealing journey across the lands and waters of a state that exemplifies the complexities of American food and identity. While North Carolinas food heritage is grounded in core ingredients and the proximity of farm to table this book reveals striking differences among food-centred cultures and businesses across the state. Documenting disparities among peoples access to food and farmlandand highlighting community and state efforts toward fundamental solutionsEdible North Carolina shows how culinary excellence entrepreneurship and the struggle for racial justice converge in shaping food equity not only for North Carolinians but for all Americans.Starting with Vivian Howard star of PBSs A Chefs Life who wrote the foreword the contributors include Shorlette Ammons Karen Amspacher Victoria Bouloubasis Katy Clune Gabe Cumming Marcie Cohen Ferris Sandra Gutierrez Tom Hanchett Michelle King Cheetie Kumar Courtney Lewis Malinda Maynor Lowery Ronni Lundy Keia Mastrianni April McGreger Baxter Miller Ricky Moore Carla Norwood Kathleen Purvis Andrea Reusing Bill Smith Maia Surdam and Andrea Weigl.Marcie Cohen Ferris author of The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region and Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South is professor emerita of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
language: English
title: Edible North Carolina: A Journey across a State of Flavor
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press