As I sit in my office at UNC Press on a rare day’s visit to the premises, given our collective pandemic caution, I gaze—lovingly, it’s fair to say—at the Savor the South cookbook collection sitting on my bookshelf. Twenty-four cookbooks, twenty-four southern foods and food traditions. And on March 1, with the publication of Michael Twitty’s Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook, our Savor the South collection will be completed at twenty-five volumes. We’ll be celebrating Michael and Rice and all of our beloved Savor the South authors and their books this year. Michael, aka...