This month, North Carolina Reads explores “Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia’s Search for Resilience” by Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre.

About the Book:
Nonfiction. Depictions of Appalachian food culture and practices often romanticize people in the region as good, simple, and, often, white. These stereotypes are harmful to the actual people they are meant to describe as well as to those they exclude. In "Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia’s Search for Resilience", Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre tell a more complicated story. The authors embark on a cultural tour through food and drinking establishments to investigate regional resilience in and through the plurality of traditions and communities that form the foodways of Southern Appalachia. (From publisher description – The University of South Carolina Press)

Pick up a copy at Lee County Libraries (107 Hawkins Avenue, Sanford) with your library card. Reading guides are also available.

Join North Carolina Reads, a statewide book club from North Carolina Humanities that connects communities through shared reading experiences. Learn more at nchumanities.org.

North Carolina Reads "Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience" Virtual Book Event
Date & Time: Apr 28, 2025 06:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Description: Join North Carolina Humanities for its third North Carolina Reads book club discussion of 2025. This discussion will examine themes and topics from the North Carolina Reads book selection “Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience”. This discussion features Dr. Ashli Quesinberry and Dr. Wendy Atkins-Sayre in a moderated conversation.

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