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Good Food · Honest History · Strong Opinions
  • The exterior wall of the Greenwood Rising Black Wall Street History Center in Tulsa: dark brick with a James Baldwin quote in raised cream letters reading, 'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

    The Road Was the Syllabus

    ByKara June 7June 6 Food & Politics, Travel

    You can’t drive the South from Atlanta to Tulsa without driving through its history of racial and tribal injustice. What eleven hours and five states are actually made of.

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  • Michael Twitty at an historical cooking reenactment at Smith Farm in Atlanta. Michael is sitting behind a wooden table loaded with food and ingredients. He's in front of a blazing cooking fire. There is a man to his left who is ready to enact his directions as the head cook in the room.

    What We Owe: Black Southern Foodways and the History We Need to Know

    ByKara February 2May 16 Food & Politics

    This is the first in what will be an ongoing series called Food is Political. I thought it was appropriate that this first post come during Black History Month and gives me a chance to talk about attribution, appropriation, and giving credit where it’s due It’s Black History Month. And on this blog, that’s going…

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