Food isn't just what you eat — it's who you are, where you're from, and whose hands made it first. Help us document the Southern table, one family at a time.
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Verify County
Confirming your county maps your contributions to a place. Required for oral history data — county-level only, never your address.
Oral History Quiz
8 questions about your family's food traditions. Feeds the oral history archive and starts building your idiocuisine profile.
Dish Scout
Tell us which dishes you know. 10+ responses unlocks your idiocuisine comparison view and helps us map regional patterns.
Submit Recipe
Add a recipe your family makes. Even fragments count. Completes your profile and enters you in the contributor record.
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Interactive Suite
Oral History Quiz
8 questions about your family table. Every answer feeds the archive.
Interactive Suite
Dish Scout
We show you a dish. You tell us if you know it. Fast, fun, useful.
Interactive Suite
Simmering Takes
Culinary debates. No right answers. Well, maybe.
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Interactive Suite
Submit a Recipe
Add a recipe your family makes. Even fragments count.
Interactive Suite
Your Recipe Book
Everything you've cooked, bookmarked, and want to learn — in one book.
Invite a Family Member
Multi-generational data makes better research. Invite someone from a different generation to contribute their side of the table.
Oral History Quiz
Your Family Table
8 questions. Free text. No wrong answers.
Question 1 of 8
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Dish Scout
Do you cook this dish?
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You responded to 20 dishes this session. Your answers help map regional food knowledge.
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Simmering Takes
Culinary debates. One answer per question. Responses mapped by county.
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Submit a Recipe
Even fragments count. Approximations welcome.
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Your Idiocuisine
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Idiocuisine profile chart will appear here once you complete the Oral History Quiz and 10+ Dish Scout responses.
Planned: pie chart of your top dish origins + comparison to your county average.
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