Celebrate 30 years of the OA.
With original work from Imani Perry, Kristen Arnett, Diane Roberts, and so many others, our Spring Issue honors our past and looks into our expansive future.
With original work from Imani Perry, Kristen Arnett, Diane Roberts, and so many others, our Spring Issue honors our past and looks into our expansive future.
With contributions from Cynthia Greenlee, Crystal Wilkinson, Channing Gerard Joseph, and many others, this special edition is really something to savor. Alice Randall, the New York Times best-selling novelist, award-winning songwriter, educator, food activist, and cookbook author, guest edits the issue, one that centers, “the Southern kitchen in the African diaspora, and in conversation with other arts—for in the African-American experience cooking in the South has long been both an expressive and global practice.”
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
PEASANT FOOD
Notes from a life in restaurants
by Brad Johnson
TARRY WITH ME
Reclaiming sweetness in an anti-Black world
by Ashanté M. Reese
FLASHLIGHT
A story by J. Shores-Argüello
Loving Something Enough, by Tiana Clark
Sweet Potato Pie, a story by Eugenia Collier
Nothing but Sweet Potato Pie, by Ayana Contreras
Sweet Potato Chess and Meringue Jar-Lid Pies, by Rebekah Turshen