(Jackson, TN)   Four members of the Shaw Family who operate Brooks Shaw & Son Old Country Store in Casey Jones Village recently attended the 2009 Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium.  Deborah Shaw Laman, and her Mother, Anne Shaw, attended the 2009 Delta Divertissement held in Greenwood, Mississippi.  It began with a "Boarding House Lunch" at the Viking Range Training Center in downtown Greenwood with Viking chef Elizabeth Heiskell.  The evening event was a trip to Indianola, Mississippi to visit the multi-million dollar B.B. King Museum & Delta Interpretative Center followed by dinner at Club Ebony, now owned by B.B. King. Accommodations were at the world renowned Alluvian Hotel in downtown Greenwood.

 

Clark and Juanita Shaw attended the Symposium in Oxford, Mississippi which was entitled "Music & Food: Exploring Interdependent Cultural Expressions".  The weekend long event entailed a fascinating schedule of various speakers, food events and networking with the conference attendees.  The Southern Foodways Alliance is a member supported non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation and preservation of the diverse food cultures of the American South.  It is under the directorship of John T. Edge, one of the country's most noted food experts and authors.  The SFA is headquartered at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi at Oxford.