Hungry Roots

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Hungry Roots is written by Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1643364758 (ISBN 10) and 9781643364759 (ISBN 13).

2025 North Carolina Humanities North Carolina Reads pick A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the region Depictions of Appalachian food culture and practices often romanticize people in the region as good, simple, and, often, white. These stereotypes are harmful to the actual people they are meant to describe as well as to those they exclude. In Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre tell a more complicated story. The authors embark on a cultural tour through food and drinking establishments to investigate regional resilience in and through the plurality of traditions and communities that form the foodways of Southern Appalachia.