Soul Collection
Tuscaloosa News – July 23
The University of Alabama’s acquisition of one of the world’s largest African-American cookbook collections did more than bring food to Alabama…Tracing the roots of the soul food movement and beyond, the collection contains more than 450 titles with recipes from African food diasporas — past and present. According to Louis Pitschmann, dean of the UA Libraries, the reprint version of ‘What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern Cooking,’ published in 1881, features recipes by a former Alabama slave and was thought to have been the earliest publication by an African-American chef until Malinda Russell’s cookbook ‘A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen,’ originally published in 1866, came to light…According to Jessica Lacher-Feldman, the outreach services coordinator for the W.S. Hoole Special Collection Library at UA, the collection is David Lupton’s effort to create a comprehensive bibliography of culinary literature that reflects the diversity of African-American culture and highlights differences in regional cooking. Lupton, a distant cousin of former UA president Nathaniel Lupton, decided UA was the ideal place to donate his collection because of its location, and after his death Lupton’s widow authorized the collection’s transfer…
Gameday Changes for 2008
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – July 22
Fox 6 (Birmingham) – July 21
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – July 21
The University of Alabama is offering more reserved spaces on the quad for tailgaters. For $730 you can reserve a space for a year. That includes a tent, electricity and a parking pass. School officials also plan to crack down on people parking on the grass.