Her courses include “Shalom Y’all”: The Jewish Experience in the American South, Cooking Up a Storm: Exploring Food in American Culture, Mamas and Matriarchs: A Social History of Jewish Women in America, No Place Like Home: Material Culture of the American South, and Introduction to the American South: A Cultural Journey. She is the author of the James Beard Award-nominated book, Matzoh Ball Gumbo (UNC Press, 2005) and co-editor of Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History (Brandeis, 2006). Her current work, “The Edible South: Food and History in an American Region,” is a social history of southern foodways, which explores the cultural, social and economic practices that relate to food in the American South.