Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience
2025 North Carolina Humanities North Carolina Reads pick

A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the region

Depictions of Appalachian food culture and practices often romanticize people in the region as good, simple, and, often, white. These stereotypes are harmful to the actual people they are meant to describe as well as to those they exclude. In Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre tell a more complicated story. The authors embark on a cultural tour through food and drinking establishments to investigate regional resilience in and through the plurality of traditions and communities that form the foodways of Southern Appalachia.

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Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience
2025 North Carolina Humanities North Carolina Reads pick

A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the region

Depictions of Appalachian food culture and practices often romanticize people in the region as good, simple, and, often, white. These stereotypes are harmful to the actual people they are meant to describe as well as to those they exclude. In Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre tell a more complicated story. The authors embark on a cultural tour through food and drinking establishments to investigate regional resilience in and through the plurality of traditions and communities that form the foodways of Southern Appalachia.

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Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience

Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience

Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience

Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience

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2025 North Carolina Humanities North Carolina Reads pick

A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the region

Depictions of Appalachian food culture and practices often romanticize people in the region as good, simple, and, often, white. These stereotypes are harmful to the actual people they are meant to describe as well as to those they exclude. In Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre tell a more complicated story. The authors embark on a cultural tour through food and drinking establishments to investigate regional resilience in and through the plurality of traditions and communities that form the foodways of Southern Appalachia.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781643364742
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Publication date: 04/25/2024
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Ashli Quesinberry Stokes is professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

What People are Saying About This

Sheri Castle

A scholarly approach to using the diversity and dignity of our food stories to reveal bigger pictures—to get Appalachia 'less wrong.' As a professional cook and storyteller with Appalachian roots that go back generations, I applaud the authors' goals and their work.

Justin Eckstein

An essential read in rhetoric and food studies, showcasing how Appalachian cuisine embodies a cultural rhetoric of resilience.

Adrian Miller

Joyously and poignantly spotlights the underappreciated cuisine, people, and stories of Appalachia. I love the way that the authors turn stereotypes into a sustained celebration.

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