Need a lunch break listen? Check out stories from our latest oral history project, South Asian Arkansas, to learn how South Asian entrepreneurs have built a thriving culinary community in northwest Arkansas. #sfaoralhistory#sfafieldtrip https://t.co/V4ncFRHGnB
The Tang family moved to northwest Arkansas in the 1980s, the first Chinese family in their town. Daughter, Shu Lan, followed in her parents' footsteps and opened Tang’s Asian Market in 2013. #nwarkansas#sfafilm @AvaLowrey https://t.co/uKLSkKGJMW
There's still time to apply to @southfoodways oral history workshop! Come learn about oral history with me! Deadline to apply is April 8. https://t.co/bOCMbaj6Qh
SFA oral history videos may soon disappear (forever)! Anybody know ppl @Google or @YouTube who might help recover our acct cxled by Google+? Hrs on phone holds haven't helped.
Are you or someone you know interested in learning more about oral history and/or foodways? Apply for SFA's oral history workshop now! https://t.co/bOCMbaj6Qh
Question for history and foodways folks: I'm starting a project on longterm waitstaff in the South. What are the best books or journalism you've read about the waitstaff and their connection to labor/race/gender/cultural history or ethnography?
"I write about food history. Food tradition. It’s all about what makes us who and what we are here." -- @poppyt#oralhistory#cookbookauthors https://t.co/mJT20vvuXw
"If the recipe is in my book, I have tested it. If the words are in my book, I have written it. It doesn't make it in there unless it's passed through my hands." -- @virginiawillis #oralhistory#cookbookauthors https://t.co/qBYkyapLjD
"The librarians would go through these ragged magazines and dilapidated books and they would cannibalize them, deconstruct them, remix them and create these new scrapbooks." -@jvance https://t.co/3rNcyvDZW0
@JohannaMellis @OHAnetwork I know this is foundational, but Valerie Yow talks about that female dynamic in chapter 7: Interpersonal Relations in the Interview of her book Recording Oral History. That's one of my favorite OH passages. I just keep going back to it in my own work.