The stories and history surrounding Southern food are just as colorful and diverse as the food itself. The Southern Foodways Alliance (click Our Work button for oral histories) collects stories from across the region and celebrates the contributions of countless classes, races and ethnicities on Southern cuisine. ased in Wilmington, N.C., Sara Wood works as an oral historian with the SFA. The Daily Tar Heel sat down with Wood to find out more about her research and what she has learned from working in the South. For full story, click here.