Oxford American

The Oxford American features 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 multiple National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992. The magazine has featured the original work of such literary powerhouses as Charles Portis, Roy Blount, Jr., ZZ Packer, Jesmyn Ward, Donald Harington, Sarah M. Broom, Donna Tartt, and Ernest J. Gaines. The magazine has also published previously unseen work by such Southern masters as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, James Agee, Zora Neale Hurston, James Dickey and Carson McCullers, to name just a handful. The New York Times claims that the Oxford American "may be the liveliest literary magazine in America."

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Oxford American

GOOD BREAD • An introduction to the Food Issue

FOOD ISSUE

THE FOOD ROOM • What it takes to feed Stone County, Arkansas

HEIRLOOM LEGACY • Diane Flynt kickstarted a cider renaissance

MAWMAW’S WORK • Cooking for the Iberville Parish Jail

QUENEPAS

TREE OF LIFE • Are there enough post oaks to sustain Texas barbecue?

FEATURES

Fathead • BEGIN BY ADDING FRESH BLUEBERRIES

LIBRARIANS ON HORSEBACK • The New Deal project that preserved Kentucky’s recipes

SUBMITTING TO THE BEAST • A father and son in New Orleans—feasting and flaneuring

WINE COUNTRY • Uncorking country music’s history from winos to wine moms

Church Pulao • The past, present, and future of Southern community cooking

BEST BITES • A collection of essays celebrating transcendent mouthfuls from across the South

Succulent Lore • Pork cracklins in Port Arthur, Texas

Tailor Made • Two tomato sandwiches in Tennessee

Burnt Chiles and Soul • Mole in Washington, D.C.

Good Hot Fish • Fried catfish in Asheville, North Carolina

Regrowing Jedo’s Garden • Tabouleh in a family kitchen