Giveway! | Asheville Grown Collection + The Potlikker Papers!
A giveaway you say? Yep. We're giving away a copy of The Potlikker Papers by John T. Edge AND a 12 piece box of our Asheville Grown Collection. Read on for details...
Called "The One Food Book You Must Read This Year." by Southern Living Magazine and profiled here by NPR and here by the New York Times, The Potlikker Papers is a people’s history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades. The book uses food as a lens that helps us connect the dots between food and culture and social justice, from the the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the "New Southern" cuisine that cities like our hometown of Asheville have become famous for.
Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, writes about the South with love and hope, paired with a firm belief that Southern eaters have a "responsibility to pay down the debts of pleasure owed to the enslaved African cooks and farmers who came before".
We at French Broad Chocolates consider ourselves incredibly lucky to call Asheville our home, and to be a part of the aforementioned "New Southern" food movement. We take our commitment to social and environmental and economic justice seriously and work hard to source all of our ingredients with intention. We feel truly blessed to live in a region that allows to source much of what we use locally, and develop and maintain close relationships with our farmers and organizations like the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project who advocate for them.
We created The Asheville Grown Collection as both a love letter to our mountain town and a celebration of the farmers and producers that comprise our bountiful foodshed. From raspberries to sorghum to lavender to honey, each of these handcrafted truffles and caramels features locally sourced ingredients combined with our bean-to-bar chocolate, grass-fed dairy and organic sugar.
We're over the moon to be partnering with Penguin Books on a seriously awesome (and simple) giveaway. Just leave a comment below telling us what "Southern Food" means to you. It could be a memory, a hope, a dream, a poem, a song... use your biscuit ;)
Contest closes on Wednesday, June 21. Winner will be announced on Thursday, June 22!
I was born in Virginia but didn’t grow up there. I spent the last 20 years of my life in Georgia. In the past couple of years I have gained an appreciation for Okra and that is one of my favorite “Southern Food”s. Since moving to Atlanta, I’ve tried so many great foods from the region and I am surprised by it each time. It sometimes takes you to a different time and place, and it usually is very comforting and satisfying. Usually it is not a fancy cut of meat or an expensive vegetable. They are usually simple dishes that really stand out.
Where I come from, if it doesn’t include bacon fat or fat back, it ain’t served!
Southern food conjures up many different memories for me and I can’t help but smile at the thought. There are many different recipes and occasions for Southern food, but they are all connected with family and love! As I start my own family, my hope is to pass along the same traditions and create everlasting memories with them as well. :)
Southern food is simply delicious food. Comfort food! Sometimes it’s the simplest foods. Like pinto bean cooked all day with a ham hock, sliced tomato out of the garden and a price of corn bread. It’s traditions, recipes from the past and using the local food you have around you. The secret ingredient is it is always cooked with love.
Love French Froad chocolates and good food is always welcomed. Can’t wait for the combo!