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What is real food and how far would you go to find it?

I sold my house, I quit my job, and I embarked on this journey across six continents

to go to the deep origins where our foods are born.

I want to reclaim what's mine. I'm Anne Strange Champs, and today we're

talking about authenticity in cooking and eating what it means and why it matters. In our family,

the highest compliment anything could get was that it tasted like Iran. How have you found your

identity in African American, Jewish, gay culture through food?

I'm a little, as we call my grandmother, Grammy.

So I'm a little Grammy, I'm a little bubby.

I'm a little queen mother of the house.

I'm all of those pieces.

Today we go looking for deep flavors, personal identity, and love in food.

Wisconsin Public Radio.

Okay, we left Michael Twitty about to pull something out of a bag.

I can tell you one thing that I do carry with me.

I've had several of these, and once they get old and weathered,

they kind of become their own kind of calcified artifact.

The one I have is relatively new now, and it contains

a fragment from a dish that was cast off from the big house at a rice plantation, South

Carolina, and it was found in the grounds in the area where enslaved people had their quarters.

So this was a dish that our ancestors ate from.

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