secretstories
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Liz Williams on Food as Story
Yesterday I had the pleasure of interviewing Liz Williams—founder of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum and someone who thinks about food not just as sustenance, but as story, culture, power, and identity. We talked about the rich tangle of foodways in Louisiana—the contributions of Indigenous, Black, Spanish, French, and Acadian communities—and the way race,…
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New Orleans Folds Space
Today started out ordinary and veered straight into uncanny. I sat down at Honey’s, a neighborhood café I picked more or less at random, and barely had time to sip my coffee when Hayden—yes, that Hayden—walked in like it was the most natural thing in the world. We met over a month ago, hundreds of…
