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  • Manhattan

    History served in Chinatown (see Not About Food)

    from the restaurant, General Lee’s Man Jen Low, with videotaped oral history from a former chef. Worth a look for anyone interested in Chinese restaurants and immigration, or changing American tastes. I’ve posted a... (0 replies, last updated by squid-kun March 31, 2004)

  • South

    Some West Tennessee BBQ Places

    You probably haven’t heard about... Also check out http://blogs.commercialappeal.com/bbq for Leslie Kelly’s writeups... Link: http://www.southernfoodways.com/oral_history/tnbbq/R00_index.shtml (0 replies, last updated by Tater November 14, 2005)

  • Not About Food

    NOLA updates on Southern Foodways Alliance website

    Maybe most people already know this, but I just found that the SFA site has a list of New Orleans chefs, food writers, etc. who are safe and accounted for. They also have just completed an oral history project on the great... (1 reply, last updated by Sherri September 7, 2005)

  • New Orleans

    Vaucresson

    Here’s another good Vaucresson’s item—Sara Roahen conducted an oral history interview with Vance Vaucresson. Read/hear the whole thing at http://www.southerngumbotrail.com/vaucresson.shtml (3 replies, last updated by Hungry4Good September 24, 2008)

  • South

    Good Eats in Tennesse

    Good resource from the Southern Foodways Alliance. Link: http://www.southernfoodways.com/oral_history/tnbbq/index.shtml (3 replies, last updated by Davwud May 23, 2006)

  • South

    mississippi river delta / Valley / Plains / Ozarks food... creole, soul, Q, etc; NEAR River Road if possible

    's and Crawdad’s in Merigold. Tater’s right about Doe’s in Greenville.......a sure don’t miss place. It’s on Nelson St. going west off Broadway in the low rent district........ Go To SFA Oral History... (5 replies, last updated by Ike! December 22, 2005)

  • Boston Area

    Two Bostons

    with the oral history. The theme is pretty spiritually dark – much pain in the taped voices. The director told me last Saturday that they were having a lot of trouble getting people who support this sort of activity to come... (0 replies, last updated by Tord February 15, 2000)

  • South

    Henderson, Tn - help locate Bar B Que place

    the Henderson area places have me ready to head out that way soon! http://www.southernfoodways.com/oral_history/tnbbq/R00_index.shtml (2 replies, last updated by meatn3 February 9, 2008)

  • New Orleans

    Any word on Sara Roahen, former food critic for Gambit?

    Wow—can’t say that I agree with ANY of your impressions. She did an oral history with my family on a different project, and I certainly found her genuinely interested, enthusiastic, emphathetic, and professional. And... (7 replies, last updated by Hungry Celeste February 6, 2008)

  • Food Media and News

    Books about/by servers

    - Phoebe Damrosch’s "Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter" - Not all about servers / serving, but in that line, “Hotel Bemelmans” by Ludwig Bemelman - An oral history collection, "Hey,... (5 replies, last updated by soupkitten November 26, 2007)

  • South

    County Cookin' in MS Delta, off the Tamale Trail

    If you know about the Tamale Trail, then I would assume you’re familiar with the oral histories of Greenwood restaurants on the Southern Foodways Alliance website. If not, go to www.southernfoodways.com and take a look. If... (2 replies, last updated by UESgal August 4, 2006)

  • Boston Area

    Speaking of Mexican...

    The Tufts link that you mentioned is from a class that I took....in fact, I interviewed the owner of My Mexicano for that class! The course is called Urban Borderlands, and the focus was completing an oral history project on the... (2 replies, last updated by g May 25, 2004)

  • Manhattan

    Minetta Tavern

    's stories and talked about Joe Gould, whose mythical “Oral History of Our Times” played a major part in bringing Mitchell’s writing career to a close. Their relationship was documented in the film “Joe Gould’s Secret” and many... (3 replies, last updated by Bob Martinez May 20, 2008)

  • South

    Nashville - Mayo's Mahalia Jackson

    proprietor E.W. Mayo on the Southern Foodways website at http://www.southernfoodways.com/oral_history/nashville_eats/ew_mayo.shtml (This is the link to the edited interview). I’m going to try to make it by one of the... (4 replies, last updated by Ginger September 2, 2006)

  • Manhattan

    Good for a drink before Otto

    and never saw the need to redecorate. From New York Songlines: “An Italian restaurant founded in 1937, it was a meeting place for Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, Ernest Hemingway, etc. Joe Gould (who Joseph Mitchell often wrote about)... (6 replies, last updated by calypsogirl July 22, 2006)

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