We stage events, produce documentary films, publish compendiums of great writing, and – perhaps most important – document our region’s culinary standard bearers through oral history interviews. We’re talking fried chicken cooks, barbecue pitmasters, bartenders, ham curers, and row crop farmers.

The SFA is a member-supported organization of more than 800 people. Chefs and academics, writers and eaters: all are active participants. In the Atlantic Monthly, Corby Kummer dubbed the SFA “this country’s most intellectually engaged (and probably most engaging) food society."

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The SFA is an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
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