Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing ABRAMS to gather at the table

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He is a former staff writer and food columnist at Creative Loafing in Charlotte

author and local tour guide Jessica Surface explores the stories and history of Charleston's love of food

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from drinks to dessert

Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing ABRAMS to gather at the tableAuthor: Francis Lam 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