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Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South Kindle Edition
Essential in any traveler’s glovebox, Road Sides explores the fundamentals of a well-fed road trip across the Southern United States. Entries feature detailed histories and more than one hundred original illustrations that document the many colorful sights and delicious flavors you can experience along the way.
Learn the backstory of food-shaped buildings, including the folks behind Hills of Snow, a giant snow cone stand in Smithfield, North Carolina, that resembles the icy treats it sells. Discover the roots of kitschy roadside attractions, and have lunch with the state-employed mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs in Florida.
Road Sides is for everyone: the driver in search of supper or superlatives (the biggest, best, and even worst), the person who cannot resist a local plaque or snack, and the kid who just wants to gawk at a peach-shaped water tower.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
- Publication dateOctober 1, 2019
- File size64818 KB
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[A] delightful book…there can't be many travelogues-of-odd-vernacular this engagingly written, can there? Certainly none (other than Road Sides itself) authored by a woman with a master's degree in folklore, an author whose thorough and engaging descriptions of Southern regional standouts and culinary peculiarities are enhanced by her own full-color drawings. ― Austin Chronicle Published On: 2019-12-06
[Wallace] canonizes the foods of the Southern road, in all their kitschy, diverse, delicious glory…[Road Sides has] a little something for everyone―an iconic New Orleans po’ boy, the ties between NASCAR and moonshine, the real story of Harland (better known as Colonel) Sanders...it serves as a handy resource for anyone eager to get a taste of the gems that dot Southern roads. ― The Local Palate Published On: 2020-07-22
Before hitting the highway, tuck this amusing guide into the glove department to learn about the best and worst dining attractions in the South. ― Augusta Chronicle Published On: 2019-09-30
Bursting with 140 colorful illustrations drawn by Wallace, Road Sides is an A to Z compendium of essential visits for a well-fed Southern road trip. ― Arts & Sciences Magazine Published On: 2020-04-17
Road Sides is clearly aimed at a general audience of readers with its journalistic style of participant observation and whimsical illustrations, but Wallace makes use of her folklore training and scholarly connections in both the historical contextualizing of automobile culture and the critical lens with which she points out the good, the bad, and the ugly of Southern history and practice... What emerges from this wide-ranging investigation is [a] story of innovation, both technological and entrepreneurial, about the creative minds who came up with a new product or process or marketing strategy to adapt to a world that is changed irrevocably by car travel. ― New Books in Food Published On: 2020-07-24
Emily Wallace combines two of America's favorite pastimes—eating and roadtripping—into one colorful collection. Using Wallace's guide as a map, readers can cruise around the South, hopping from one detour and destination to another enjoying tons of good food and fun factoids. ― Nashville Lifestyles Published On: 2020-01-15
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About the Author
Born and raised in North Carolina, Emily Wallace is the art director and deputy editor for the quarterly journal Southern Cultures and a freelance writer and illustrator. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Oxford American, Southern Living, and other publications.
Product details
- ASIN : B07R3V8M8S
- Publisher : University of Texas Press; Illustrated edition (October 1, 2019)
- Publication date : October 1, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 64818 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 193 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,177,206 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #126 in Roadside Attraction Travel
- #230 in Culinary Travel
- #699 in Auto & RV Travel
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