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...

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...

'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...

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...

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)...

This may provide a little background. Have fun. That’s an area I’d love to tour. http://www.southernfoodways.com/oral_history/tnbbq/R00_index.shtml

. for more on La Segunda, I made the following video for the USF library’s oral history program. there are 3 parts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pZEu6hhuZY

of that in the Delta. For the Tamale Trail we’ve tried to stick to conducting oral histories with folks who actually make hot tamales; places that have tamales but don’t make them are simply mapped. That is not to...

, part the Sonoma County Wine Library’s oral history project, on his life in wine. He was a major collector of Madeira and engaged in debate with Michael Broadbent MW and Darrell Corti on the classic wines. He was the...

in the Entergy “Woodstoves to Microwaves” cookbook, but I’m not certain. Meanwhile, here’s a nice interview with Ron Kottemann, the Roman Candy man: http://www.southernfoodways.com/oral_history...

everything i could find on national food habits, like Harvey Levenstein’s books, but i untilize local sources for the most part. I’m also working on a Oral History video series (here at U of S. Fla—- filming,...

You’ve convinced me. I am from FL and would be disappointed with mediocre sea food, so I will definitely make the trek and report back. Did you know that the Southern Food Alliance has a project on that area?...

Check out these oral histories of well-known Greenwood restaurants. Link: http://www.southernfoodways.com/projects/delta/greenwood/index.shtml

Oral history is a perfectly valid method of collecting data. Studs Turkel has made a career of writing social history using oral history technique. His book, HARD TIMES: An Oral History of the Great Depression is arguably the...

is that they give a 100% weight to the Spanish account of how things came about... and are rarely in the indigenous villages speaking with people to find out the oral history. (I know some may balk at the idea that Oral History...