Rien Fertel: 3 books
The One True Barbecue
Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole Hog
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
“For anyone interested in the origins, history, methods and spectacle of whole-hog barbecue, this book is essential reading...Fertel leaves readers hungry not only for barbecue but also for the barbecue country he so engagingly maps” (The Wall Street Journal).
In the spirit of the oral...
Imagining the Creole City
The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected with America's golden age of print, to explosive effect. Imagining the Creole City reveals the profusion of literary output -- histories and novels, poetry and plays -- that white...
The Larder
Food Studies Methods from the American South
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The sixteen essays in The Larder argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper...