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A Letter to the Newgrorati: Of Collards and Amnesia
Dear Newgrorati on #BlackTwitter, If you want to learn about a culture, listen to the stories. And if you want to change a culture, change the stories.—Michael Margolis We need to have a talk about...
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Taking the Cake
So there is a lot of press about two children’s books published as of late. One, A Fine Dessert, was published and honored, another, A Birthday Cake for George Washington just got pulled. Both showed...
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#WorldBookDay Pre-Order The Cooking Gene today
On November 8, 2016, HarperCollins will release my first book: The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South. RACE. We are fascinated by it and...
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In Honor of National Soul Food Month: The Roots of Soul
It’s National Soul Food Month. Yes there is such a thing! I thought I might take you on a tour of one of the sources of soul, the early Chesapeake. I’ve written frequently about the Chesapeake being...
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A People’s History of Southern Barbecue
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/04/barbecue-american-tradition-enslaved-africans-native-americans?CMP=share_btn_tw Enjoy this piece I wrote, freshly published on The Guardian giving a...
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In honor of #SFA15 :Southern Food: A 19th Century Photo Album
I can’t tell you how important I think food is. I’m currently at the 18th Southern Foodways Alliance conference in Oxford, Mississippi. Coming back to the world’s largest gathering of South-centric...
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A People’s History of Cornbread Stuffing | MUNCHIES
http://munchies.vice.com/articles/a-peoples-history-of-cornbread-stuffing Enjoy this introduction to kush, the original Southern cornbread dressing, a dish born between Africa and America with roots...
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How to Make Kush, the Original Cornbread Stuffing | MUNCHIES
https://munchies.vice.com/recipes/cornbread-kush Follow this link for a recipe for kush, an irreplaceable African American contribution to Thanksgiving.
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American slaves’ Christmas was a respite from bondage – and a reinforcement...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/25/american-slaves-christmas-was-a-respite-from-bondage-and-a-reinforcement-of-it I wish everyone a happy holiday. It’s interesting that for such a...
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A Letter to the Newgrorati: Of Collards and Amnesia
Dear Newgrorati on #BlackTwitter, If you want to learn about a culture, listen to the stories. And if you want to change a culture, change the stories.—Michael Margolis We need to have a talk about...
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Taking the Cake
So there is a lot of press about two children’s books published as of late. One, A Fine Dessert, was published and honored, another, A Birthday Cake for George Washington just got pulled. Both showed...
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The State of Soul Food in America: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future |...
http://firstwefeast.com/eat/the-state-of-soul-food-in-america/?utm_campaign=fwf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social This was an amazing review of the contemporary soul food scene edited by...
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Michael Twitty Addresses Racial Inequality in the Southern Kitchen | MUNCHIES
https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/michael-twitty-addresses-racial-inequality-in-the-southern-kitchen?utm_source=munchiestwitterus Helen Hollyman, Editor of Vice’s very popular Munchies site sat...
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Writing About Food at the Intersection of Gayness, Blackness & Faith
http://food52.com/blog/17071-writing-about-food-at-the-intersection-of-gayness-blackness-faith Enjoy this piece I did for Food52 about being a Black, gay, living history interpreter of historical...
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Bill O’Reilly thinks slaves were ‘well fed’. So will he eat like one for a...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/27/bill-oreilly-slaves-eat-well Haven’t heard from Bill O’ yet…however my offer still stands, I’ll cook him the food enslaved people ate on the...
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Slaves were well-fed? Seldom, says historian | The Charlotte Observer
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/food-drink/ill-bite-blog/article93076552.html Enjoy some video and this tidy write up from Kathleen Purvis! See you for dinner next time! If you like the work...
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How a Brazilian Scholar Inspired My Search for the Roots of Soul Food
All historic images were sourced from www.slaveryimages.org, compiled by Jerome Handler and Michael Tuite, and sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia...
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Why this Blog?
Why this Blog? I wanted to create a new cultural vocabulary around food that would draw on our best yearnings to make the politics of food work for everybody not just a few. I don’t have much to say...
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Crops of African Origin or African Diffusion in the Americas
So–Some of you have come to me with the question about the African origins of crops found in the Americas. I want to give simple answers here so you have something at your fingertips. Let’s talk about...
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How Corn Shaped the Black Culinary Experience/Southern Foodways Alliance 2016.
http://www.southernfoodways.org/black-corn/?platform=hootsuite My presentation at the Southern Foodways Alliance 2016 on corn and the story of the African Diaspora and American slavery. Please enjoy...
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