
What is Southern food?
Southern food is the welcome table, a convivial place where you can savor a hearty meal cooked with love and where there's always room for one more chair. It doesn't matter whether you're born and bred, a transplant, or just passing through: you are welcome here.
Isn't it interesting that Kendra doesn't define Southern food by naming specific dishes, ingredients, or even places?

As it turns out, that's the same day as the Appalachian Food Summit in Hindman, Kentucky. If you're in the area, swing by, meet Kendra, and help celebrate our region's signature foods in this first of its kind gathering, which brings together authors, chefs, farmers, advocates, scholars, and regular folk who know good eats. Highlights include...
- A fair featuring regional food and farm organizations
- An oral history booth where you can share Appalachian food memories
- A book signing with Appalachian cookbook authors, including Kendra
- A talk on heirloom plants by renowned seed-saver Bill Best
- Remarks from Jamie Ross, who produced and co-wrote the PBS documentary Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
If you go, be sure to let us know what you thought of the event!