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

These three black cookbooks span the diaspora with tantalizing 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 home.

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 rural Virginia's small community Freetown, an enclave built by the formerly

enslaved, Lewis 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 Toyabouti's cookbook is a beautiful ode to the Crescent City. With recipes like

gumbo and yakamine, 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 Afrikanah. Afrikanah takes readers taste buds on a flight through the

African continent, from Nigeria to Madagascar. Food writer Loretto Uma Shailer 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.

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