Chow.com has a feature on Southern-style Passover Seders:

Children of Israel, come south. Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo, wants to set you free from matzoh ball soup and gefilte fish. With her background in both Jewish studies and the Southern Foodways Alliance, she has combined Jewish traditions with Southern flavors for a delicious new spin on Passover. We’ve crafted this menu using recipes from Ferris’s book; make one dish or cook up the whole thing.

[link courtesy of future meatblogger, Michele]

Over at Gourmet, John T. Edge thinks back fondly to childhood meals of squirrel and details a stew he made with some Fox Squirrels.

I knew of Edge’s work at the Oxford American and some of his other writing, but I didn’t know about the hotdog stand:

John T. Edge is director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. He is a contributing editor at Gourmet and writes for a number of other publications including the Oxford American and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Edge is editor of the forthcoming foodways volume of the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and is author of a number of books, including an expanded and revised paperback edition of Southern Belly from Algonquin Books. For a brief and shining moment, he ran a hotdog stand on the Oxford square, serving pimento-cheese-capped natural-casing dogs. He called the business Dunce Dogs, an homage to Ignatius J. Reilly, anti-hero protagonist of the novel Confederacy of Dunces.

The man had a hotdog stand with a name that paid homage to Confederacy of Dunces. That’s a detail so nerdtastic I don’t have any other comment on it other than, wow!