I did not grow up observing Cinco de Mayo. Nobody in my Texas family did. It wasn’t a holiday in the way Christmas or Thanksgiving or even the Fourth of July was a holiday; it was a date on the calendar that occasionally meant something at school and otherwise didn’t. In college it became an…
This month on the blog, we’re honoring Black History Month by talking about African American foodways and the history of Southern food. If you want to learn more – and you should – here’s where to start. Essential Reading and Viewing Books: Television/Streaming: Writers and Food Historians to Follow: This is not an exhaustive list….
Every food has a backstory. Most of the ones we got told are wrong. Not lying-wrong, usually. Story-wrong. Stories travel faster than facts, and the version that travels is the version that wins. Someone decides. The decision calcifies. The origin disappears, or gets sanded down, or gets handed to whoever had better marketing. By the…
