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About Kelly Spivey
My work revolves around food and the stories we tell, whatever format that takes. My current research is focused on the intersections of food, labor, and social justice. Originally from North Carolina, I’ve lived across the country, but primarily in the US South. I began as a photographer, receiving my BFA from SCAD in 2006. I shifted gears and spent over ten years as a pastry chef, working with some of the best chefs in the South. Seeking a deeper connection with southern food, I received my MA in Southern Studies in 2020 and my MFA in Documentary Expression in 2021, both from the University of Mississippi. After years of traveling, I’m currently enjoying the mountains of Colorado.NBN Episodes hosted by Kelly:
July 11, 2024
Insatiable City
A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor. In Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans (U Chicag…
May 2, 2024
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother’s presence. She soon realized tha…
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…