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

Ashli Quesinberry Stokes

ISBN 10: 164336474X / ISBN 13: 9781643364742

Published by University of South Carolina Press, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 164336474X
• ISBN 13: 9781643364742
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 272 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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

Wendy Atkins-Sayre is professor and chair of the Department of Communication & Film at the University of Memphis. The two have collaborated on Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South and coedited City Places, Country Spaces: Rhetorical Explorations of the Urban/Rural Divide.