Annual Black History Month Racial Incident

The African American tradition of soul food comes from vegetables imported from Africa(okra/yams) and whatever food we were fortunate enough to be allowed to eat that wasn't good enough for the master's table.

It takes ingenuity to turn pig intestines into an edible table dish. Or make cheese out of a hog's head.
At some point in Black history, soul food and Southern cuisine cross-pollinated each other, so that much of what is considered soul food is also a huge part of the White Southern palette as well.

I find no shame in eating food that originated from the struggle of slavery in this country.

And EVERY dinner/function/church event hosted by Black folk from my parent's generation had fried chicken, cornbread, biscuits or dinner rolls, mac n cheese and collard greens.

In the summertime in my parent's generation, which means we kids were offered the same food, watermelon was just everywhere.

Which is probably why I'm not too good with watermelon to this day. Too much negative cultural baggage.

Creole Blacks don't eat fried chicken?? Corn bread?? Watermelon??:|

My deceased uncle's wife is from southern Louisiana, her skin whiter than many White people, and every major holiday she fixed gumbo AND fried chicken, cornbread, mac n cheese, etc.

 

if i showed up in my neighborhood to a bbq or gathering with quiche we would never get invited back...i always go with a plan to pick up another recipe