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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 resilience. In the Netflix Series, High on the Hog, Dr. Harris stated, “through food, we can find out there is more that connects us than separates us”.