The Delicious Evolution Of Soul Food
Black History Year
PushBlack
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Culinary historian Micheal Twitty says: “Our food was never just food. It was medicine and a gateway to good fortune, and a mystical lubricant between the living and the dead.” Our cuisine has always been worthy of praise.
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| 0:57.5 | podcast. Culinary historian Michael Twitty says our food was never just food. It was medicine and a gateway |
| 1:06.9 | to good fortune and a mystical lubricant between the living and the dead. Our cuisine has always |
| 1:14.2 | been worthy of praise. This is two-minute black history. What you didn't learn in school. Our food |
| 1:23.3 | belongs to a culinary legacy encompassing centuries of creativity, resourcefulness, and community. |
| 1:30.9 | There wasn't freedom to choose what we consume during enslavement. According to Soul Food |
| 1:36.4 | scholar Adrian Miller, enslaved people received a five-pound starch allotment, small portions of salted |
| 1:43.1 | or smoked meat, and a jug of molasses each week. |
| 1:47.3 | They supplemented their diets by fishing, foraging, hunting, and raising livestock. |
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