Episode Details

The recent announcement of a new Michelin guide dedicated to the American South has sent a ripple of excitement through several Southern states, including North Carolina. Leoneda Inge sits down with  Scott Peacock, director of tourism, marketing and communications for Visit NC, to learn more about the restaurant selection process. Due South’s Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii chat with Appalachian State University professor Brett Taubman about his new book Southern Culture on the Fizz: An Effervescent Guide to Fermented Foods and Beverages from the American South. And director Ryan Coogler’s latest film, Sinners, is a Southern gothic horror film set in 1930s Mississippi. We talk to African and African American Studies professor Mark Anthony Neal and musician Lois Deloatch about the film’s approach to race, spirituality and music.