In all the travel, field research and shooting Stan Woodward and various scholars and folklorists have done over the past eighteen years, here, for the first time, is an opportunity to collect the videos that fill in the full story of the black iron kettle communal stews that are the signature of Southern Folk Heritage cooking that stands as a monument to Southern agrarian roots. These documentaries weave together the threads of folk culinary artisans - stewmasters, hash-masters and burgoo kings - into a tapestry that shows how the black iron pot and wooden paddles have become icons that stand for our ancestors, their field-workers, families, neighbors and friends over the past two centuries who have passed down recipes and secret ingredients that are being kept alive and in the pots today.

 

Purchase this collection of stew documentaries shot under the folklife preservation aesthetic and point-of-view of Southern culture and folklife doumentary filmmaker, Stan Woodward, and you will find that an extraordinary picture will form, with great breadth and scope, that is as much about the people of the South with agrarian roots and ancesters who worked the farms as it is about the heretofore invisible and "under-the-radar-screen" variety of communal stews cooked and revered by church groups, volunteer fire departments, Ruritan clubs, Hunt clubs, off-the-beaten-path hash-houses, burgoo kings, and stewmasters - all of which form a layer of Southern culture that has gone "unframed" by mainstream media.

 

10-DVD SET - $140 plus $10 shipping and handling