Presented by LODGE CAST IRON, VIRGINIA WINE BOARD, TONY CHACHERE’S, BROOK AND PAM SMITH
Sustenance
The second weekend of the Symposium centers on Sustenance, examining the power of food to resist, nourish, interrogate, and nurture. Novelist Silas House describes a childhood in Appalachia marked by buttermilk biscuits, kitchen dance parties, and casual bigotry. There is no monolithic Southern family, he tells us, and there’s always possibility for change. Author Chandra Ram questions the celebration of Indian and Southern food connections, and how ceremony can move beyond questions to inspire action. Learn from chef Oscar Diaz how calls for diversity can tokenize and fetishize food and those who cook it – and how hickory-smoked bulgogi and cast-iron-cooked BrunsMex stew will soon define Southern food.
Silas House is the bestselling author of six novels, including 2018’s Southernmost, which grapples with the limits of belief and infinite ways to love in a small Tennessee town. The book was a long-list finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and appeared on numerous “Best of 2018” lists. In 2016, Silas wrote the play In These Fields: A Folk Opera with Sam Gleaves for the Sunday performance of SFA’s 19th fall symposium.
- Year2020
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
Presented by LODGE CAST IRON, VIRGINIA WINE BOARD, TONY CHACHERE’S, BROOK AND PAM SMITH
Sustenance
The second weekend of the Symposium centers on Sustenance, examining the power of food to resist, nourish, interrogate, and nurture. Novelist Silas House describes a childhood in Appalachia marked by buttermilk biscuits, kitchen dance parties, and casual bigotry. There is no monolithic Southern family, he tells us, and there’s always possibility for change. Author Chandra Ram questions the celebration of Indian and Southern food connections, and how ceremony can move beyond questions to inspire action. Learn from chef Oscar Diaz how calls for diversity can tokenize and fetishize food and those who cook it – and how hickory-smoked bulgogi and cast-iron-cooked BrunsMex stew will soon define Southern food.
Silas House is the bestselling author of six novels, including 2018’s Southernmost, which grapples with the limits of belief and infinite ways to love in a small Tennessee town. The book was a long-list finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and appeared on numerous “Best of 2018” lists. In 2016, Silas wrote the play In These Fields: A Folk Opera with Sam Gleaves for the Sunday performance of SFA’s 19th fall symposium.
- Year2020
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
