Carrie Helms Tippen

I teach a course for graduate students in Creative Writing and Food Studies called “The Literary Cookbook.” Not wanting to take anything for granted, I begin every class with a…

The Southern woman in me brings food to misfortune – potato casserole crusted with corn flakes, pound cake soaked in sugar and rum – an apology for not taking the blow…

My sister took a picture and called it “The Food Chain.” A dry earthworm, thick with road dust, clamped in the bright jaw of a mockingbird trapped in the chrome…