It's no secret that our people can throw down in the kitchen.

These three black cookbooks span the diaspora with

tentilizing recipes worth rolling up our sleeves to make.

This is two minute black history.

What you didn't learn in school. There's nothing like a good meal and our food always tastes like a comforting call. From New Orleans to Nigeria, these black

cookbooks span the flavors of the diaspora and deserve a place in your

kitchen. Let's start with the Edna Lewis cookbook.

Edna Lewis was doing farm to table before it was a trend.

Growing up in Roar, Virginia's small community, Freetown, an enclave built by the formerly

enslaved, Louis was used to hunting, fishing, and farming for her food.

In her most iconic cookbook, the recipes are organized seasonally, inspiring us to tap into our ancestral traditions of eating

and cooking as close to the land as possible.

Next we have Cooking for the culture.

New Orleans native Toyabowdy's cookbook is a beautiful old to the Crescent City.

With recipes like Gumbo and Yagamine, Her work brings a mix of Creole classics that we all know and I love

for adventurous dishes worth trying for the first time. And then there's Afrikana. Afrikata takes readers

taste buds on a flight through the African continent from Nigeria to Madagascar. Food writer Laredo Uma Shaler highlights the diversity of African cooking traditions.

Good food is a beautiful way for our people to come together because

there's nothing like gathering around a lovely prepared meal with your

people. Cooking is a great way to keep us connected to ourselves and

our ancestral traditions. In order to move towards the future you've got to look to the past.

This has been two minute Black History, a podcast by Push Black.

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