Grits, Gumbo, and Grandmothers: A Roundtable on Black Cuisine

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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From grandma’s mac & cheese to community gardens and collard green ramen, this episode celebrates the flavor, history, and rebellion baked into every bite of Black food. Featuring kitchen lore, spice rack debates, and dishes that double as survival stories, PushBlack's own food journalist Briona Lamback, writer and chef Alyssa Guzick, and farmer Yahudith Morgan join Dee for a family-style dinner to shoot the breeze about the food legacy that nourishes our people. — This podcast is brought to you by PushBlack, the nation’s largest non-profit Black media company. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com. Most folks do 5 or 10 bucks a month, but truly, anything helps. Thanks for supporting the work. With production support from Leslie Taylor-Grover and Brooke Brown, Black History Year is produced by Cydney Smith, Darren Wallace, and Len Webb, who also edits the show. Lilly Workneh is our Executive Producer and Black History Year's host is Darren Wallace. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	So never stir counterclockwise. That came from my mother. She was like, you never stir
0:35.1	with her shins. And I was always like, why? She was like, it's bad luck. It puts evil in the food.
0:50.5	When you eat soul food, you aren't just eating. You'll taste in a legacy that you didn't even know you were a part of.
0:59.4	If your grandmob's mac and cheese could talk, would it spill family tea or secret African trade routes?
1:07.0	I'm Len with Push Black, and you've locked into Black History here.
1:18.4	Today, it's all about food.
1:21.5	Our food.
1:23.0	We'll get into the spices and ingredients that mix with our ingenuity to create the soul food on our
1:28.7	plates today. We'll reveal how family recipes were passed down when freedom may not have been
1:35.0	guaranteed, but flavor was. And it's only fitting that our host Darren sits down family style
1:41.8	with members of the Push Black team, history and society writers
1:46.0	Brianna Lamback and Alyssa Guzik, and our people and culture maven, Yahoodeth Morgan.
1:52.0	We're dishing up the rich legacy of black food, where every bite carries a story that brings us closer to community,
1:59.0	and every laugh reminds us of where we
2:02.1	thin and where we're headed from cookouts to your little cousin's fish fry we're
2:08.0	celebrating the joy creativity and connection that makes black food a whole vibe
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