For generations, rural families in the Alabama Black Belt grew and hunted what they needed to sustain themselves. Wild game was a major and critical part of the diet. Today, hunting is still a popular Black Belt pursuit, but it’s less about sustenance and more about camaraderie, challenge, and immersion in nature. We meet Jerry Dawson, a coon hunter in Sumter County, who illuminates the world of coon dogs, and Nikki Baker, a dove hunter in Marengo County, who loves to beat all the men on the field (and often does) to the 15 bird limit.
This batch of Gravy is reported and produced by Jackie Clay, Executive Director at the Coleman Center for the Arts in rural Sumter County, Alabama; Matt Whitson; an award-winning production audio mixer and video editor at Alabama Public Television in Birmingham, Alabama; and Emily Blejwas, Executive Director of the Alabama Folklife Association and author of The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods (UA Press).
What Is White Trash Cooking? (Gravy ep. 47)
Repast (Gravy Ep. 46)
Dancing the Shrimp Dry: How Chinese Immigrants Drove Louisiana Seafood (Gravy Ep. 45)
The Leftovers In A Coal Miner's Lunchbox (Gravy Ep. 44)
An Apple Quest (Gravy Ep. 43)
Schnitzel and the Saturn V (Gravy Ep. 42)
ENCORE: Dinner at the Patel Motel (Gravy Ep. 33)
Fish Camps: Fried Seafood and Family in a North Carolina Mill Town
A Seafood Phenomenon: the Wonder of Alabama Jubilees (Gravy Ep. 40)
The Middle East in Music City (Gravy Ep. 39)
What’s Growing in Mossville? (Gravy Ep. 38)
Halo Halo: Growing up “Mix Mix,” Filipino in the American South (Gravy Ep. 37)
The New Old Country Store (Gravy Ep. 36)
Wanting the Bourbon You Can’t Have (Gravy Ep. 35)
Jell-O Makes the Modern (Mountain) Woman (Gravy Ep. 34)
Dinner at the Patel Motel (Gravy Ep. 33)
Mexican-ish: How Arkansas Came to Love Cheese Dip (Gravy Ep. 32)
A Trailer, a Temple, a Feast: Making Laos in North Carolina (Gravy Ep. 31)
The Pull of Pollo: How the Chicken Industry Transformed One Arkansas Town (Gravy Ep. 30)
Hip Hop to Bibimbap: the Atlanta of Christiane Lauterbach (Gravy Ep. 11)
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