Home Town Recipes: Race, Myth, and Cookbooks in 20th Century Vicksburg

913 Washington Street,Vicksburg MS 39183

23 April, 2022

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Dr. Andrew Haley, Moorman Distinguished Professor in the Humanities 2019-21 and Associate Professor of American Cultural History from USM. Saturday, April 23: Home Town Recipes: Race, Myth, and Cookbooks in 20th Century Vicksburg — Dr. Andrew Haley, Moorman Distinguished Professor in the Humanities 2019-21 and Associate Professor of American Cultural History from The University of Southern Mississippi This event is part of the Food For Thought: Catfish Row Museum Lab and Pop-Up Exhibition. Through grant funding from the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area, the museum will present a series of hands-on workshops, curatorial events and programs centered around local foodways. Through public programs and workshops, the museum will develop content and collect artifacts for the Catfish Row Museum. In the museum’s lab space, visitors can scan, copy and donate documents, such as letters, recipes and historic photographs, as well as record oral history interviews. In the exhibition space, community members can observe and provide feedback on how their artifacts and stories will be used in exhibits. This programming will present rich stories of crossing barriers and borders, of lives intertwined with food, as food and place are linked through the diversity of income and ethnicity in the South. About the speaker: Andrew P. Haley is an associate professor of American History at the University of Southern Mississippi. He studies culture, class, and cuisine in the United States from the Gilded Age through the 1970s. He has a doctorate degree in History from the University of Pittsburgh. His first book, Turning the Tables: American Restaurant Culture and the Rise of the Middle Class, 1880-1920, won the 2012 James Beard Award for Scholarship and Reference. In Turning the Tables, Andrew argued that changes in restaurant culture at the turn of the century—battles over French-language menus, scientific eating, and cosmopolitan cuisine—demonstrate the growing influence of urban middle-class consumers. Andrew is currently working on a book and archival project that explores how Mississippi community cookbooks tell stories about changing dining habits, gender politics, race relations, and American national identity in the twentieth century.