A Buffet of Black Food History (Patreon)

I hate hearing the term "slave food". Black American food history is a rich one! For this video I culled some interesting tidbits in culinary history that you may not have heard about, while also providing context for how black Americans eat today-- and why.  I love this video A LOT! Enjoy. 

Sources and Further Reading

Michael Twitty's Open Letter to Bill O'Reiley

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (Michael Twitty)

Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power (Psyche Willians Forson)

Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America (Frederick Douglass Opie)

Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution (Frederick Douglass Opie)

Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food: Recipes, Remedies & Simple Pleasures (Frederick Douglass Opie)

An Illustrated History of Soul Food

Food and The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement: Re-Reading The 1962-1963 Greenwood Food Blockade

The Welcome Table: Georgia Gilmore (John T. Edge)

Heaven Was a Place in Harlem (Vince Dixon)

A Hungry South: Poverty, Malnourishmentm and Racial Inequity c 1930s (Marcie Cohen Ferris)

Fast History: Rent Parties

Aunt Jemima: The Mammy of Pancakes

The Black Church: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Hungry History: The Average American Diet Through The Centuries

Hungry History: Black Cookbooks from the 19th Century

How a child of Virginia slaves became the oyster king of New York — and a favorite of the Queen of England

How Thomas Downing became the black Oyster King of New York

Ben’s Chili Bowl Survived Riots And Recessions, But Might Not Make It Through The Pandemic

A Homecoming (Amirah Mercer)

RosaParks' Peanut Butter Pancakes