Liberation, Fried Chicken and Owning our Culture with Adrian Miller and Chef Rock Harper
Black History Year
PushBlack
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Food is family, culture and LIFE! As food writer Adrian Miller and Chef Rock Harper remind us, African food traditions are healthy, abundant and delicious. So how did we get to a place where we're told soul food and our food traditions are toxic? It's time to lift up our food culture! BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company - hit us up at BlackHistoryYear.com and share this with your people!
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Useful links:
Books by Adrian Miller, the Soul Food Scholar, "dropping knowledge like hot biscuits."
"44 Things Parents Should Know About Healthy Cooking for Kids" by Chef Rock Harper.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm just hoping that soul food gets less hate and gets more love because it's a wonderful, |
| 0:04.8 | rich, and beloved tradition. |
| 0:11.9 | Food is family. Food is culture. Food is life. In our community, these aren't cliches. |
| 0:23.0 | This is our truth. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Jay from Push Black, and in today's episode of Black History Year, |
| 0:30.0 | we're talking food. |
| 0:31.0 | The food that ties us to Africa, the food that connects us as a people today, the food |
| 0:36.5 | that connects us to our ancestors, to Grandma and now. In the Black experience, food has also been used against us as a tool of the impressor. |
| 0:47.0 | Today, we're going right for the heart of it, just like you'd expect with push black. |
| 0:52.0 | So get ready for talk you won't hear anywhere else |
| 0:55.0 | about things like the surprising connection between fried chicken, |
| 0:59.3 | watermelon, and black self-love. |
| 1:07.0 | To make that happen, we're going to switch it up for this episode. We're fortunate to have two folks helping us break it down. |
| 1:11.0 | Chef Rock Harper is someone you might have seen on TV and his Queen Mother's |
| 1:17.2 | restaurant has been reshaping the ways we can embrace and reclaim fried |
| 1:21.6 | chicken for our people. |
| 1:23.4 | First though, is Adrian Miller. |
| 1:26.0 | As you'll hear him joke around in our conversation, |
| 1:28.6 | Adrian is from Denver, but fam. |
| 1:30.9 | You know, we can't hold this against him |
| 1:32.3 | when we talk about barbecue. |
| 1:34.0 | The man knows his stuff. |
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