The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Billed as "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing," it has won two National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992.
Contributors
Food Is Us • Dedicated to Julia Reed, Randall Kenan, and Marie Dutton Brown
The Oxford American
POINTS SOUTH
COVID Kitchen
The Umstead
Pimento-cracy
The Art of Being Eaten Alive
A Monumental Flavor
After Apple Picking
Promise and Purpose
A Sustainable Call and Response
A Weary Traveler in a Familiar Land
Nothing Can Dim the Light
Sisterfeast and the Manna of Afro-Carolina
GOOD LIVING GOOD READING GOOD TASTING GOOD LISTENING
PEASANT FOOD • Notes from a life in restaurants
TARRY WITH ME • RECLAIMING SWEETNESS IN AN ANTI-BLACK WORLD
SIX POEMS
FLASHLIGHT
A Miraculous Root
Loving Something Enough
Sweet Potato Pie
Nothing but Sweet Potato Pie
SWEET POTATO SOUNDS
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