McDonald's are making small improvements to our classic burgers, searing out 100%

British beef patties, so they're even juicier.

And we're serving them hotter for meltier cheese, all in new toast of your

buns. The classics, now a little more mmm comparison with

prior classic burgers served after 11 a.m. subject to availability.

Mm. In 1901, Billian Harris left Mississippi for Harlem,

penniless and unable to read or write.

But she had a dream and a plan to cook her way to

financial success selling southern delicacies and she did it and so much more.

This is two minute black history, what you didn't learn in school. Lillian Harris stood on a buzzing Manhattan Street corner in a freshly starch dress with a baby carriage but no baby. She had something completely

unexpected inside.

"'Pigs be'! She yelled. A daste it down home for your weary bones.

This tagline for the bony delicacy earned Lillian Harris the nickname

Pink Foot Mary.

Her carriage was packed not only with pigs feet, but also fried chicken,

corn, hog maws, and chitlins. Her traditional dishes offered a taste of nostalgic comfort to black people like herself who had

migrated to New York City from the South. Pigfoot Mary was leaning into the legacy of black caterers who since the 1700s have cooked their way to financial independence.

Although she had come to New York penniless, she built a booming business and eventually replaced her baby carriage with a portable steam table that she had designed.

A business that had a dozen sales a day grew into one serving more

than 300 customers on weekends and Pickford Mary's dreams continued to grow as well.

She went from selling home cooking to using her culinary cash to buy apartment buildings in Harlem and rent the apartments to her people during the roaring 20s.

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