Food & Foodways Archives – Scalawag

soup

Soup

by Chankrisna Tea April 29, 2026April 29, 2026

I look at you, and you ask me what
is behind my eyes —

a bowl of soup,
already cooking before you ask

Food Resources Across the South

SALT, SOIL, & SUPPER

Food Resources Across the South

by Scalawag Editors November 6, 2025November 6, 2025

Illustrative header for Liberation Lineages, a photo series by Briana Blueitt

Liberation Lineages

by Briana Blueitt March 4, 2025March 4, 2025

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Southern family recipes and food stories to keep you warm through winter

by Scalawag Editors and Scalawag Team December 19, 2023December 14, 2023

The World Since You Left—Episode 3 of Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon, Season 2: Seasons of Change. Listen and read along with the podcast transcript.

Ashes, Ashes

by Nnenna Freelon December 7, 2023December 14, 2023

Nnenna Freelon, the voice behind Great Grief, shares her family recipe for sweet potato pie, memories of her late grandmother, and how she has found ways to cope with the grief that always seems more present around the holidays—through baking.

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On grief and sweet potato pie: A holiday meditation

by Nnenna Freelon November 29, 2023November 29, 2023

Inside the struggle of farmers and industrial workers in Gaza as Palestinians face exposure to environmental racism under Israeli blockade.

How Palestinian farmers and clothing workers struggle under Israeli blockade

by Rami Almeghari June 23, 2023November 14, 2023

Black elders saved this couple's Mississippi farm. Now they're harvesting ancestral techniques—and tomatoes

by Erica Hensley and Teresa Ervin-Springs August 3, 2022December 5, 2023

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

'This plan is a lie.' How biogas could do more harm than good for the hog industry

by Cameron Oglesby March 24, 2022September 27, 2023

Exploring the solar system through Indigenous winter solstice traditions

by Rosalyn R. LaPier, The Conversation December 20, 2021September 27, 2023

Salt, Soil, & Supper: The social contracts of municipal water systems

by Xander Peters August 18, 2021September 27, 2023

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Uprooting 'private landowner syndrome'

by Xander Peters August 11, 2021September 27, 2023

Salt, Soil, & Supper: This one's for the trees

by Xander Peters July 21, 2021September 27, 2023

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The incalculable cost of cheap chicken—and the hidden industry that shoulders it

by Tina Vasquez July 20, 2021September 27, 2023

Salt, Soil, & Supper: From cell to soil

by Xander Peters June 30, 2021September 27, 2023

A prisoner's apothecary: Solitary Gardens reimagines six-by-nine cells

by Roshan Abraham, Next City June 30, 2021September 27, 2023

Salt, Soil, & Supper: The whole hog's history

by Xander Peters June 16, 2021September 27, 2023

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Food apartheid, continued

by Xander Peters May 26, 2021September 27, 2023

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Call it what it is—Food apartheid

by Xander Peters May 19, 2021September 27, 2023

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Salt, Soil, & Supper: From Mississipi's farms to kids' bellies

by Xander Peters April 14, 2021September 27, 2023

A New Crop: Portraits of Houston's Black urban farmers

by Lenard Smith, Jr. April 9, 2021September 27, 2023

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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Louisiana's shrimping industry is in jeopardy. Again!

by Xander Peters March 24, 2021September 27, 2023

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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Urban ag gets a bump from the feds

by Xander Peters March 3, 2021September 27, 2023

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(Virtual Event) Communing: Cooking & Cocktails with Scalawag

by Scalawag Team December 4, 2020September 27, 2023

Safety looks like full bellies in a pandemic

by Courtney Napier November 30, 2020September 27, 2023

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Southern Sustenance

by Scalawag Editors November 20, 2020November 13, 2023

This Durham trio wants you to pay Black farmers

by Kyesha Jennings November 16, 2020September 27, 2023

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Celebrity chefs cook up joy at the polls in the South

by Courtney Napier November 2, 2020September 27, 2023

Growing pains

by Adjoa D. Danso October 16, 2020September 27, 2023

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

by Xander Peters October 14, 2020September 27, 2023