Examining the expressive power of food throughout southern Jewish history, Ferris demonstrates how southern Jews reinvented traditions as they adjusted to living in a largely Christian world. Features anecdotes, oral histories, and more than 30 recipes. Photos.

From the colonial era to the present, Marcie Cohen Ferris examines the expressive power of food throughout southern Jewish history. She demonstrates with delight and detail how southern Jews reinvented culinary traditions as they adapted to the customs, landscape, and racial codes of the American South. Richly illustrated, this culinary tour of the historic Jewish South is an evocative mixture of history and foodways, including more than thirty recipes to try at home.

Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region