Our Sweet Mamas: A Queer Food Legacy Project in "Dixie" Land

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What is queer food? And what does it look like in the South? In the small town of Water Valley in Mississippi, chef and restaurant owner Dixie Grimes serves up a slice of her work that helps us figure out how we can answer these questions.

Our Sweet Mamas is a short documentary film exploring the role of Southern food in Dixie’s life, highlighting how her new restaurant serves the people, both literally and metaphorically, that helped get her where she is today, and revealing what drives her latest project.

Dixie’s focus on old-school Southern cooking, fused with fine-dining technique and international flavors, is an example of queerness in action: taking the traditions and norms and turning them into something more radical; honoring the past while imagining a more diverse, and delicious, future. By bringing communities together over a real-deal, tasty meal, Dixie hopes to move past the divisions sowed in the South, and truly get everyone sitting around the table.

This film is for everyone who is hungry for more – in more ways than one. So, dig in!