by familyvoices | Jan 20, 2021 | FamU - BC - Black Culinary History
Why Does Food Matter? Everyone eats food. Food helps us to function and survive. However, low-income and marginalized communities often lack convenient places that offer affordable and healthy foods, these areas are known as food deserts. Food deserts are defined as...
by familyvoices | Jan 19, 2021 | FamU - BC - Black Culinary History
Black Culinary History: Race, Culture, and Food Black Culinary History is more than the image of Aunt Jemima or Uncle Ben on pancake mix and rice boxes. Black Culinary History is the basis for American Cuisine. When enslaved Africans were forcibly brought to the...
by familyvoices | Jan 18, 2021 | FamU - BC - Black Culinary History
Weapon of Control Food was used as a weapon to control enslaved blacks. Abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass wrote in My Bondage and My Freedom, “I have often been so pinched with hunger, that I have fought with the...
by familyvoices | Jan 17, 2021 | FamU - BC - Black Culinary History
Singing Soul Food Southern cuisine and music were both born out of poverty and hardship and are highlighted in the Singing Soul Food playlist from the Southern Foodways Alliance, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, a nonprofit record label of...
by familyvoices | Jan 16, 2021 | FamU - BC - Black Culinary History
Recipes Dr. Jessica B. Harris first tasted Yassa in Senegal in 1972 on her first trip to the African continent “and it was love at first bite”. Michael Twitty traced black-eyed peas back to the Middle Passage and its roots in Africa, recognizing it as a seed of Black...
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