S E338: Carla Hall: The History of Watermelon
In Class with Carr
Knarrative
4.9 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Karen and culinary anthropologist, Carla Hall discuss culture, history and food. In this episode Carla and Karen talk about the History of watermelon and the stigma placed on it by whites, out of envy for the economy it created in the black community. .
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Welcome, |
| 0:13.6 | welcome to In Class with Carla Hall. |
| 0:16.8 | I don't even want to call you a top chef because you're so much more than that, |
| 0:20.7 | amazing human being. |
| 0:22.3 | And today, and let me just thank you for doing |
| 0:24.5 | this here and subscribe to this channel of course but thank you for participating in |
| 0:29.4 | this experiment of mine because I am hell bent on gathering as much information history |
| 0:36.4 | knowledge culture as possible during this time that I have on earth with as many |
| 0:40.9 | brilliant people as I can possibly talk to. |
| 0:44.0 | So thank you for participating. |
| 0:47.0 | Are you kidding? |
| 0:48.0 | It is an honor to be here. |
| 0:51.0 | It's an honor to have a conversation. And me it's always about discovering something about |
| 0:57.1 | yourself or the subject during a conversation do you know what I mean yeah and I |
| 1:02.1 | always do that with you so thank you well we conversation. You know what I mean? Yeah. |
| 1:02.6 | And I always do that with you, so thank you. |
| 1:04.3 | Well, we started talking about race, and then you were like, |
| 1:06.9 | we need to talk about watermelon. |
| 1:08.7 | And what's cool for me is my dad grew up in Newark, |
| 1:11.9 | and he used to tell a story about he and his brother who's like 11 months younger than he is or was. |
| 1:18.0 | And they were six and seven and they used to work on a watermelon truck in New Jersey in the summertime. |
| 1:24.4 | And you don't think of Newark as being this big watermelon place. |
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