![]() | Cornbread Nation 7 How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It's so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they've spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and of traditions that form identities of many kinds. FRANCIS LAM is editor-at-large at Clarkson Potter. He appears at the Critics' Table in the fifth season of Top Chef Masters (Bravo). He was features editor at Gilt Taste , which was awarded six IACP awards and four James Beard award nominations in its first two years. His own writing has been nominated for a James Beard award and three IACP awards, winning one. He has served as senior writer at Salon.com and a contributing editor at Gourmet , and his work has appeared in the 2006-13 editions of Best Food Writing . |
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