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SOUL FOOD: The Southern Foodways Alliance produces films, does research and just generally celebrates regional food culture.

The Southern Foodways Alliance, a food society that studies, documents, and celebrates food from the American South, is holding their Potlikker Film Fest in Athens on August 22nd. The 6 to 9 p.m. evening of movies, mingling and performance will be held at Cine Athens and kicks of with “potlikker shots” for guests as they walk in the door. There will be bite-sized samples of old and new southern cuisine and live music and poetry by Coleman Barks. The event also includes a set of four short films on food in the South directed and produced by the SFA. The 21 and over evening is $45. Beer will be provided by Athens’ Terrapin Beer Company. Register here.

(Photo by Southern Foodways Alliance)

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Someone on Air America played this clip from the 1976 film Network today before interviewing director Sidney Lumet. During the last decade, this particular speech has often been cited for its prescience, but it is downright eerie to listen to it now.

Lumet said that the film has usually been described as a satire but that he and writer Paddy Chayefsky never regarded it as such. They felt they were describing what was already happening in America over 30 years ago.

In Howard Beale’s litany of what’s gone wrong with America, even the deterioration of food quality is mentioned.

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