Mar 2, 2022
In “The Bitter and the Sweet of Craft Chocolate in the Global South” episode of Gravy, producer Sarah Holtz engages important voices in the complex conversation about ethical chocolate, from central Ghana to southern Missouri.
In the chocolate world, terms like corporate sustainability and ethical sourcing are...
Feb 23, 2022
In "Memphis Restaurant Workers Unite," Gravy follows a group of restaurant workers that’s slated to become the first formal union of food and beverage workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Led by Lily Nicholson, the group, Memphis Restaurant Workers United (MRWU), organized a petition that resulted in $2.5 million in...
Feb 16, 2022
What’s in the fridge? In New Orleans, solidarity means a stocked fridge. In this episode of Gravy, producer Sarah Holtz takes listeners inside a mutual aid society called New Orleans Community Fridges, which formed during the pandemic to help feed people in need. Since its start, the group has been gifted around 20...
Feb 9, 2022
"Married," by Jo McDougall. Featured in Vinegar & Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance. University of Georgia Press, 2018.
Jan 26, 2022
Marlanda Dekine is a poet
and author obsessed with ancestry,
memory, and the process of staying within one’s own body. This poem
appears in their collection Thresh & Hold, forthcoming from Hub City Press on March 29,...