{"product_id":"social-roots-sarah-v-ross-9780820362489","title":"Social Roots: Lowcountry Foodways, Reconnecting the Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocial Roots \u003c\/i\u003eis an interdisciplinary volume that draws on contributions from inside and outside the academy to explore the relationships between nature and culture as expressed in the foodways of the Georgia and South Carolina coasts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn seventeen chapters, a handful of bespoke artworks, and recipes, Sarah V. Ross and her contributors illuminate the invisible threads that run in wild tangles through the Lowcountry, connecting massive live oaks and palmetto and freshwater sloughs with tidal waters flooding and draining the most extensive salt marshes on the Eastern Seaboard. These threads connect the landscape from the St. Marys River on the Georgia-Florida border to the confluence of Ashley and Cooper Rivers in Charleston, South Carolina. Flowing threads of tidal creeks--half ocean, half fresh river water--also connect us through time to cultures who feasted on an abundance of shellfish thousands of years ago. An enduring bounty of oysters, shrimps, crabs, clams, and mussels still lure us into their world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLooking across time and geography, this book interweaves fundamental ecological principles as it honors three early cultures: Native American, European, and African. All were enmeshed with the coastal environment. All shared similar threads connecting food production: hunting, foraging, planting, cultivating, harvesting, preserving, and cooking. Across the ages, this ongoing connection--among land, harvester or farmer, and cook--forms the infrastructure of cookery practices. In large part, Lowcountry foodways are built simultaneously on scarcity and fickle opportunity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah V. Ross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820362484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820362489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 9.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2025","brand":"Sarah V. Ross","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47071972294911,"sku":"9780820362489","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3fd2677f-e5f0-4f3c-92a7-c9e587147e44.jpg?v=1753415439","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/social-roots-sarah-v-ross-9780820362489","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}