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Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium

Jul.23.2009

Saturday, October 31
Lecture
Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium
Topic: Mother Maybelle's Cookbook
http://www.southernfoodways.com/events/symposium/index.html
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
University, MS 38677 (662) 915-7211

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