A Vietnamese Mardi Gras krewe.
The Black longshoremen of Mobile’s Banana Docks.
A meditation on rice and belonging.
This Food Issue isn’t just about what Southerners eat—it’s about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going.
Julian Rankin
About
Julian Rankin is the author of Catfish Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for his Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta, a James Beard Foundation Book Award nominee, and the recipient of the 2019 nonfiction award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. He is the director of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art.