Food & Foodways Archives – Scalawag

Scalawag Updates

(Virtual Event) Communing: Cooking & Cocktails with Scalawag

by Scalawag Team December 4, 2020December 4, 2020

Join the Scalawag team—along with a few friends—at 7 p.m. ET for our next virtual event, Communing: Cooking & Cocktails. We'll be making regional recipes together, and share storytelling from the Gulf, to the Hollers, to the Piedmont.

Safety looks like full bellies in a pandemic

by Courtney Napier November 30, 2020November 30, 2020

Scalawag Updates

Southern Sustenance

by Scalawag Team November 20, 2020November 20, 2020

This Durham trio wants you to pay Black farmers

by Kyesha Jennings November 16, 2020November 17, 2020

Southern Politics

Celebrity chefs cook up joy at the polls in the South

by Courtney Napier November 2, 2020November 2, 2020

Growing pains

by Adjoa D. Danso October 16, 2020October 16, 2020

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Let's talk Indigenous gumbo

by Xander Peters October 14, 2020November 20, 2020

Organizers in the Rio Grande Valley worked this summer to ensure people had access to food in neighborhoods with high rates of food insecurity. All photos by Ángela García.

Southern Politics

Love to the RGV from a new generation of activists

by Deana Ayers October 12, 2020October 12, 2020

Sweet (and sticky) redemption

by Maurice Bailey & Nik Heynen September 29, 2020October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

COVID-19 hit Arkansas poultry workers at an 'alarming rate' as state and industry officials looked on

by Olivia Paschal August 24, 2020September 16, 2020

Scalawag Updates

Update: SOLD OUT! Buy Gravy's print issue centering voices of color, support marginalized food writers (& Scalawag)

by Scalawag Team August 6, 2020October 9, 2020

The Remedy: The Costello family's 'next-best thing' spaghetti sauce

by Mike Costello July 14, 2020November 19, 2020

White food media and the commodification of resistance

by Tunde Wey July 13, 2020February 26, 2021

The Remedy: Mrs. Betty's macaroni-and-cheese

by Cynthia R. Greenlee July 10, 2020November 19, 2020

The Remedy: Grandma Lacey's Cornbread

by Samantha Willis June 30, 2020November 19, 2020

Black businesses disrupt unhealthy food system in Southeast Raleigh

by Courtney Napier June 5, 2020October 1, 2020

The Triangle's first Black-owned vegan restaurant still doing business during COVID-19

by Giulia Heyward May 15, 2020September 16, 2020

What happened to New Orleans' Black truck farming culture?

by Xander Peters April 27, 2020October 1, 2020

Black farmers build their own food scene in Forsyth County, NC

by Tina Vasquez April 24, 2020October 1, 2020

Arts & Soul, Race & Place

Black horse culture and living in pleasure: in conversation with Wild Talk's avry jxn

by Amber Officer-Narvasa March 23, 2020October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

North Carolina's hog industry could turn a corner—for better or worse

by Ryke Longest February 28, 2020September 16, 2020

Food, power, and place in Northwest Arkansas

by Olivia Paschal January 6, 2020December 3, 2020

Southern Politics

Can Young Black Farmers Save Atlanta?

by Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza April 8, 2019September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

The Fight in Swine Country

by Sol Weiner September 17, 2018September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

How public schools help keep low-income students fed—even on snow days

by Mason Adams March 27, 2018September 16, 2020

The hands that haunt our kitchen

by Sumi Dutta November 21, 2017October 1, 2020

Enough with the tacos: Let's talk about the systematic obliteration of Latinx foodways

by Sandra A. Gutierrez August 15, 2017September 22, 2020

Southern Politics

Drowned animals, runaway waste on North Carolina farms in Matthew's wake

by Christina Cooke October 24, 2016September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

How to fight the power company

by Scott Davis August 11, 2016September 16, 2020

The best damned chicken in the world*

by Ian Williams July 19, 2016September 16, 2020