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.
Rebecca Bengal
About
Rebecca Bengal is a contributing editor at this magazine. She is the author of Strange Hours (Aperture), and her writing has been published by the Paris Review, the Guardian, Vogue, and the Criterion Collection, among many others; her fiction appears most recently in Southern Cultures. Originally from western North Carolina, she lives in New York.