Catch up on your reading with the UGA Press Summer Sale and get 40% off all books during the month of June! Today we’re highlighting food. Take a look at some of our best food titles below, and use code 08JUNE40 at checkout to get 40% off. You can buy books that are out now…
We are right smack dab in between Thanksgiving and Christmas, two holidays filled with family and, more importantly, food. So, sticking to that theme, we’re publishing a panel from early this past October featuring four authors who focus on southern foodways. The event was sponsored by the Southern Foodways Alliance, the UGA Press,…
A couple weeks ago, we released a Q&A with the editor of Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance, Sandra Beasley. You can read it here. The poetry collection explores what it means to be southern, diversity, and, of course, food. Here is the first poem of the collection: Times Like These: Marianna, Florida…
Today is the third day of the University Press Week (#UPWeek) Blog Tour, and we are celebrating “The Neighborhood.” One of the South’s oldest, richest, and most diverse traditions is put on a plate every day. To celebrate our regional food traditions, we interviewed Sandra Beasley, editor of Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways…
On Friday evening, November 16, The Book Lady Bookstore, The University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, Coastal WildScapes, and The UGA Willson Center of Humanities and Arts will present a special lecture as part of the Skidaway Institute’s Evening @ Skidaway Series. André Joseph Gallant, author of…
New this week on Annotations: André Gallant at the Decatur Book Festival. Gallant is the author of A High Low Tide: The Revival of a Southern Oyster. He uses the bivalve as a jumping-off point to tell the story of a changing southeastern coast, the bounty within its waters, and what the future may hold for the area…
The following is an excerpt from chapter 2 of Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City by Kristin Reynolds and Nevin Cohen. Just a short walk from Yankee Stadium, in the Highbridge neighborhood of the South Bronx, Abu Talib tends a nearly half-acre oasis of vegetables, cherry trees, space for a flock…
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