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Audio Recording Interview with Eddie Harris, Lenox, Georgia, about smoking and other meat preparation for Shaw's store

Interview with Eddie Harris, Lenox, Georgia, side A

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Eddie Harris, Lenox, Georgia, about smoking and other meat preparation for Shaw's store

Names

  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Recordist)
  • Jabbour, Alan (Collector)
  • Harris, Eddie Lee

Created / Published

  • Lenox, Georgia, August 5, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Cook County -- Lenox

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  Interview with Eddie Lee "Preacher" Harris at Shaw's Super Market, Lenox GA, where Harris specializes in the smoking and other preparation of meat products, fieldworker notes that ambient sound on the store includes noise from motors in refrigeration and other equipment: announcement at start of recording by fieldworker Alan Jabbour, discussion with Harris about smoking meat, description of items in refrigerated display case, uses for ends and odds after butchering, about smoked and unsmoked sausage, hams; butchering provided by a company in Bainbridge GA; shoulders go in sausage, bacon cured like the hams, "the same way" with and without pepper, ribs scraped (straight?) bacon; Jabbour asks how Harris cures, Harris replies, cure it so many days, "I wouldn't want to go into this, I just does it with my hands," adds 60 days for hams, 20 days for bacon, cure it with refrigeration, with sugar and salt, do all the smoking after it is cured, smoke with hickory and oak only, perfume in pine; the sausage is made right here, "plantation seasoning," use Boston butt, shoulder, ground, no other scraps, "don't add nothing"; about people who come and buy, from throughout the South, from Ohio, want to buy homemade meat, Harris says, "I felt large, happy, you know, made you feel happy"; been doing the work for 20 years, learned it here, born and raised near Lenox; Harris is the pastor of two churches, in Adel and Rose Hill, Cook County GA, he was born three miles from Lenox, learned how in childhood, from parents, son of John and Georgia Harris; Jabbour expresses desire to see smokehouse, Harris jokes about the secret part of meat curing; comments on butchering in the area, no cured beef, no butchering of sheep.

Medium

  • audiotape reel, 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 20972
  • MBRS shelflist: RXA 1596
  • Field project identifier: GA7-AJ-R7

Source Collection

  • South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl, Alan Jabbour, and Eddie Lee Harris. Interview with Eddie Harris, Lenox, Georgia, about smoking and other meat preparation for Shaw's store. Lenox, Georgia, August 5, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs20972/.

APA citation style:

Fleischhauer, C., Jabbour, A. & Harris, E. L. (1977) Interview with Eddie Harris, Lenox, Georgia, about smoking and other meat preparation for Shaw's store. Lenox, Georgia, August 5. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs20972/.

MLA citation style:

Fleischhauer, Carl, Alan Jabbour, and Eddie Lee Harris. Interview with Eddie Harris, Lenox, Georgia, about smoking and other meat preparation for Shaw's store. Lenox, Georgia, August 5, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs20972/>.