Oxford American

The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Billed as "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing," it has won two National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992.

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Oxford American

A CROSSWORD

LUNDI GRAS LION DANCE • In the streets with the Krewe of Mung Beans, redefining the spirit of New Orleans

Poems

A LOCAL LOAF • One bakery’s quest to make truly homegrown bread

ON PANDEBONO AND THE VANISHING CITY • Though Miami is rapidly changing, its baked cheese bread endures

LENA RICHARD’S NEW ORLEANS COOKBOOK • A portrait of America’s first Black cooking show host

IN THE KITCHEN WITH CELIA

SCHMALTZY • Fat and flavor on the Southern-Jewish table

Every Bite Counts • Developing a culinary canon, from St. Lucia to Louisiana

AN AMERICAN ROAD • Food and love on Nashville’s Nolensville Pike

FOR ME: A SWEETELLE • after Allison Joseph

THE RICE RECORDS • Rice cannot talk, but it has a story to tell

DOWN ON THE BANANA DOCKS • Mobile, Alabama’s forgotten banana hub once brought the Caribbean fruit to the nation

THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN • After decades of unchecked hazardous waste pollution, a Florida hamlet fights the developers eager to build homes there anyway