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The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South

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“The one food book you must read this year."
—Southern Living

One of Christopher Kimball’s Six Favorite Books About Food


A people’s history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades


Like great provincial dishes around the world, potlikker is a salvage food. During the antebellum era, slave owners ate the greens from the pot and set aside the leftover potlikker broth for the enslaved, unaw...