Southern Foodways Alliance

“Fusion” had already become a dirty word by the time Raji Jallepalli made a name for herself. It connoted confused attempts to patch together different cooking languages under the patina of multiculturalism, as if two worlds jostled for dominance on a plate. Raji disentangled fusion from the gracelessness that the label implied.

The author Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the losses and fallout of gentrification in post-Katrina New Orleans.

In a personal essay, Rosalind Bentley explores her family’s tradition of baking sand pear pies.