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Director: Joe York
Run Time: 56 min
Year: 2006
Category: Documentary Feature
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This film is included in the SOUTHERN SUCCULENTS FOOD FILM SHOWCASE, a program of films produced at the University of Mississippi's Media & Documentary Projects Center in association with the Southern Foodways Alliance. The series is co-sponsored by Oxford American magazine.
Synopsis: When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the levees failed, Willie Mae Seaton's famed Scotch House restaurant, like so many others, succumbed to the destructive power of the rising water. This documentary chronicles the Southern Foodways Alliance's post-Katrina rebuilding of the Scotch House, operated by 92-year-old fried chicken maven Willie Mae Seaton.
While the revival of Willie Mae's Scotch House may have all the hallmarks of a made-for-TV movie -- young white chef celebrated for his updated interpretations of Southern cuuisine returns to his native city to aid one black matriarch of Creole Cooking -- as anyone rebuilding in New Orkeans will tell you, it's hard to feel like a hero on your 400th trip to the hardware store. --Cynthia Joyce, www.salon.com
Joe York is a producer and director of documentary films at the University of Mississippi's Media and Documentary Projects Center. He works closely with the Southern Foodways Alliance for whom he has made over twenty short documentaries, including CUD, SMOKES & EARS, and WHOLE HOG. His first short documentary, SAVING SEEDS (2005), was a finalist for the Golden Snail Award at the Slow Food on Film Festival and his first and only feature documentary, SAVING WILLIE MAE'S SCOTCH HOUSE (2007), has been aired nationally on public television.
