Haley to give fall 2019 Cookbook Lecture Oct. 8 on Hattiesburg Campus
Tue, 09/24/2019 - 11:31am | By: David Tisdale
“Political Potluck: The Intersection of a Cookbook, a Campaign, and the United Daughters
of the Confederacy in Progressive-era Mississippi,” is the next community cookbook
lecture by University of Southern Mississippi (USM) history professor Dr. Andrew Haley,
set for Oct. 8 on the Hattiesburg campus.
This free event, which will be held in room 123 of Cook Library on the Hattiesburg campus, begins with a potluck snack at 6 p.m., featuring recipes from the W.D. Holder Chapter (Jackson, Mississippi) of the United Daughters of the Confederacy cookbook. Attendees are encouraged to prepare a recipe from the cookbook, which is available at https://digitalcollections.usm.edu/uncategorized/digitalFile_ddc459b5-db2c-4f8c-a4ef-5cb29f6cea0a/. Dr. Haley’s lecture will follow at 6:30 p.m.
Community cookbooks, daily dining and social class in Mississippi are part of Dr. Haley’s research into Mississippi's unique culinary heritage and work with the Mississippi Community Cookbook Project. Dr. Haley and Jennifer Brannock, University Libraries' Curator of Rare Books and Mississippiana, began collecting Mississippi cookbooks more than five years ago in order to preserve the state's culinary and local histories. The collection, which Dr. Haley relies on in examining Mississippi food ways over the last century, includes more than 1,000 cookbooks.
“Local cookbooks often helped to bind communities together. In 1910, the Jackson Council of the United Daughters of the Confederacy produced a cookbook that symbolized Jackson's rising status as the epicenter of Mississippi life, and cement a new coalition of progressive politicians,” Dr. Haley said. “There are fascinating stories hidden just beneath the surface of this cookbook. I can’t wait to tell the story of its editors, and sample some of its most interesting dishes.”
To sign up for a recipe or for more information, contact Brannock at 601.266.4347, or email Jennifer.BrannockFREEMississippi.