Food Is Us, by Alice Randall

POINTS SOUTH

COVID Kitchen, by Crystal Wilkinson

The Umstead, by Julia Bainbridge

Pimento-cracy, by Cynthia R. Greenlee 

The Art of Being Eaten Alive, by Channing Gerard Joseph 

A Monumental Flavor, by Lokelani Alabanza  

After Apple Picking, by Mark Powell

Promise and Purpose, by Amanda Little

A Sustainable Call and Response, a poem by Caroline Randall Williams

A Weary Traveler in a Familiar Land, by Psyche Williams-Forson 

Nothing Can Dim the Light, by Donna Battle Pierce

Sisterfeast and the Manna of Afro-Carolina, by Michelle Lanier with Kali Grosvenor  

FEATURES

Pleasant Food
Notes from a life in restaurants
by Brad Johnson

Tarry With Me
Reclaiming sweetness in an anti-Black world
by Ashanté M. Reese 

Six Poems
by Tarfia Faizullah

Flashlight
A story by J. Shores-Argüello

A MIRACULOUS ROOT
On sweet potato pie

Loving Something Enough, by Tiana Clark

Sweet Potato Pie, a story by Eugenia Collier

Nothing but Sweet Potato Pie, by Ayana Contreras

No Charge, by Tandy Wilson

Sweet Potato Chess and Meringue Jar-Lid Pies, by Rebekah Turshen

Art by: Najee Dorsey, Carter/Reddy, Chandra McCormick, Danny Ghitis, Sharon Core, Xaviera Simmons, Jasmine Clarke, Celestia Morgan, Louis Fratino, Jen Everett, Didier William, Yasmin Reshamwala, Manik Raj Nakra, Milton Carter, Marc Padeu,