The only thing better than eating is reading about eating.
So, in saunters Corn Bread Nation and everyone salivates: “Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing” debuted in 2002, and since then readers can’t seem to get enough of this anthology published in conjunction with Southern Foodways Alliance.
The fifth and latest anthology was released just last month.
Here’s an article about it from PopMatters –
Cornbread Nation 5: The Best of Southern Food Writing by Fred W. Sauceman and John T. Edge
By Carolyn W. Fanelli 5 May 2010Have you ever eaten something so blissfully good that you wanted to write an ode to it or, perhaps, in the more modern fashion of Glee or Bollywood, burst into song and dance? The Cornbread Nation series captures just this feeling of unrestrained exuberance. Published in association with the Southern Foodways Alliance, it explores, explains, ponders, and celebrates Southern food and culture with such gusto that even if you’ve never ventured south of the Mason-Dixon line, you’ll soon be craving sweet tea.
In Cornbread Nation 5: The Best of Southern Food Writing, sweet tea is exactly what inspires Fred Thompson in his contribution to the collection, “Taste of Tradition”. It begins, “My mother swears she didn’t put sweet tea in my baby bottles, but the twinkle in her eye and the sly, sideways smile tell me she’s probably not being truthful.” If sweet tea can substitute for baby formula, than surely it’s no surprise that, in a dry Mississippi county, Donna Tartt’s family stored bourbon under the bathroom sink, “like medicine”…
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