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About Kelly Spivey
I'm a former pastry chef turned oral historian and writer. Originally from North Carolina, I've lived all over the country, before settling in my current hometown of Denver, CO. I hold a M.F.A. in Documentary Expression and a M.A. in Southern Studies with a minor in Gender Studies, both from the University of Mississippi. I also holds a B.F.A. in Photography from SCAD. My current research and writing focuses on the intersections of baking with labor, gender, and race in both domestic and professional kitchen spaces. I am also working on a series of oral histories focusing on bake sales as a response to social injustice.NBN Episodes hosted by Kelly:
March 31, 2024
Boardinghouse Women
In Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America (UNC Press, 2023), Elizabeth Engelhardt argues…
March 6, 2024
No Meat Required
A culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the subcultures and politics that have defined alternative…
December 17, 2023
Ways of Eating
What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticit…
September 20, 2023
Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived
For anyone who's ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the a…
September 12, 2023
The Lost Southern Chefs
In recent years, food writers and historians have begun to retell the story of southern food. Heirloom ingredients and traditional recipes have been r…
September 9, 2023
Feeding New Orleans
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many high-profile chefs in New Orleans pledged to help their city rebound from the flooding. Several formed their own…
August 16, 2023
Food Power Politics
Bobby J. Smith II's book Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (UNC Press, 2023 )unearths a food story buried d…
July 28, 2023
Appalachia on the Table
When her mother passed along a cookbook made and assembled by her grandmother, Erica Abrams Locklear thought she knew what to expect. But rather than …
July 25, 2023
Grain and Fire
While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complica…