Foreword / Jessica B. Harris

Reading southern food / David A. Davis and Tara Powell

Book farming: Thomas Jefferson and the necessity of reading in the Agrarian south / David S. Shields

Culinary conversations of the plantation south / Marcie Cohen Ferris

Marketing the mammy: revisions of labor and middle-class identity in southern cookbooks, 1880-1930 / Sarah Walden

The cookbook story: transitional narratives in southern foodways / Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt

The double bind of southern food in Willa Cather's Sapphira and the slave girl / Ann Romines

Eating poetry in New Orleans / Ruth Salvaggio

A matter of taste: reading food and class in Appalachian literature / Erica Abrams Locklear

Invisible in the kitchen: racial intimacy, domestic labor, and civil rights / David A. Davis

Eating in another woman's kitchen: reading food and class in the woman-loving fiction of Ann Allen Shockley / Psyche Williams-Forson

Consuming memories: the embodied politics of remembering in Vietnamese American literature of the U.S. south / Lisa Hinrichsen

The economics of eating: native recipes for survival in contemporary southern literature / Melanie Benson Taylor

"Gnaw that bone clean": foodways in contemporary southern poetry / Tara Powell.