This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Alice Randall
About
Alice Randall is the author of Black Bottom Saints (Amistad), now out in paperback. She is a professor and writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University, where her courses include Black Country, Country Lyric in American Culture, and Black Detroit. She hosts the Black Bottom Saints podcast, which is a weekly whirl of music, politics, and cocktails, and helped curate the Black Bottom Saints playlist on Spotify. You can follow her on Instagram @msalicerandall.