Southern Food Gets its Due

Do you live somewhere with a cuisine of its own? How would you know? There have been some famous attempts to define cuisine, including one by Sidney Mintz that has generated a great deal of debate. I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that a cuisine...

SMELL: Senses of the Civil War

  From the odious stench of soldiers who had marched for hundreds of miles in the same uniform, to the pleasant wisps of Virginia tobacco which lingered ’round the camp fire, the Civil War owned well more than just a few distinct scents. Here are a few ways...