Amy C. Evans is an artist, writer, and storyteller. She spent more than a decade documenting Southern food culture through oral history fieldwork, and her paintings continue to be a reflection of her explorations of the South. Amy's writing has appeared in a variety of publications from Saveur magazine to The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. She makes her home with her daughter in Houston, Texas. Amy's favorite pie is sweet potato. * * * ESSAYS & IMAGES ALSO APPEAR IN: EDNA LEWIS: AT THE TABLE WITH AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL by Sara B. Franklin, 2019. (Illustration) THE MISSISSIPPI ENCYCLOPEDIA edited by Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey & James G. Thomas Jr., 2017.(Photographs) SAINTS OF OLD FLORIDA by Melissa Farrell, Emily Raffield & Christina McDermott, 2016. (Foreword & Illustration) CORNBREAD NATION 5: THE BEST OF SOUTHERN FOOD WRITING, edited by Fred W. Sauceman, 2010. (Essay) FAULKNER AND LOVE: THE WOMEN WHO SHAPED HIS ART, A BIOGRAPHY by Judith L. Sensibar, 2010. (Photographs) SOUTHERN FOODWAYS ALLIANCE COMMUNITY COOKBOOK, edited by John T. Edge & Sara Roahen, 2010. (Recipes) HOLY SMOKE: THE BIG BOOK OF NORTH CAROLINA BARBECUE by John Shelton Reed & Dale Volberg Reed, 2008. (Photographs) THE NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHERN CULTURE: VOLUME 7: FOODWAYS, edited by John T. Edge, 2007. (Essay) CORNBREAD NATION 2: THE UNITED STATES OF BARBECUE edited by Lolis Eric Elie, 2004. (Photographs)