Host Frank Stasio talks to Marcie Cohen Ferris, associate director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the vice president of the Southern Foodways Alliance about her new book, “Matzoh Ball Gumbo, Culinary Tales of the Jewish South” (UNC Press/2005). The State of Things’ resident foodie Kelly Alexander joins the conversation which explores the nexus of southern and Jewish food from brisket to Sister Sadie’s honeycake. Listener Call-In. (40:00)
