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Your culture’s traditional foods do not need to be “elevated”.

Your culture’s traditional foods do not need to be “elevated”.

Your culture’s traditional foods do not need to be “elevated”.

Your culture’s traditional foods do not need to be “elevated”.

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Soul Food

The Soul Food term used for an ethnic cuisine, food traditionally prepared and eaten by African Americans of the Southern United States. So, these are African American Foods. African slaves were given only the "leftover" and "undesirable" cuts of meat from their masters. When the Europeans began their African slave trade in the early 15th century, the diet enslaved Africans changed on the long journeys away from their homelands. Vegetables, fruits, spices, and herbs were foreign to the typical pre-colonial European diet. Rice, sorghum (known by some Europeans as "guinea corn"), and okra — all common elements of West African cuisine — were introduced to the America as a result of the slave trade.

Soul Foods Biscuits (a shortbread similar to scones, commonly served with butter, jam, jelly, sorghum or cane syrup, or gravy). Black-eyed peas (cooked separately or with rice). Butter beans (immature lima beans, usually cooked in butter). Catfish (dredged in seasoned cornbread and fried). Chicken livers. Chitterlings or chitlins: (the cleaned and prepared intestines of hogs, slow-cooked and often eaten with vinegar and hot sauce; sometimes parboiled, then battered and fried). Chow-chow (a spicy, homemade pickle relish sometimes made with okra, corn, cabbage, green tomatoes and other vegetables) Cornbread (short bread often baked in an iron skillet, sometimes seasoned with bacon fat). Cracklings': (commonly known as pork rinds and sometimes added to cornbread batter). Fatback (fatty, cured, salted pork used to season meats and vegetables). Ham hocks (smoked, used to flavor vegetables and legumes). Hog maws (or hog jowls, sliced and usually cooked with chitterlings). Hot sauce (a condiment of cayenne peppers, vinegar, salt, garlic and other spices often used on chitterlings, fried chicken and fish not the same as "Tabasco sauce", which has heat, but little flavor). Neck bones (beef neck bones seasoned and slow cooked). Okra: (African vegetable eaten fried in cornmeal or stewed, often with tomatoes, corn, onions and hot peppers). Pigs' feet: (slow-cooked like chitterlings, sometimes pickled and, like chitterlings, often eaten with vinegar and hot sauce).   South Africans San and Khoekhoe people (also known as the Bushmen and Hottentots or Khoikhoi; collectively called the Khoisan). The hunter-gatherer San ranged widely over the area; Khoekhoe lived in well-watered areas. The early European settlers first came into contact with the Khoekhoe and they disappeared first due to smallpox. South Africans' Foods Soul Food Game meats, vegetables and shellfishs. Cattle was for food and symbol of wealth, so just wealthy people were eating.

African Colony In 1652 at the Cape of Good Hope, under instructions by the Dutch East India Company to build a fort and develop a vegetable garden for the benefit of ships on the Eastern trade. In 1657 nine men, were given land to farm and the first slaves were imported. In 1662, 250 white people lived in what was beginning to look like a developing colony. Read the full article

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“High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America,” a new docuseries about our food, culture and history, is now streaming on @netflix.

Reposted from @fortheculturefoodmag Congratulations to our Issue 01 cover star Dr. Jessica B. Harris (@drjessicabharris) and friends!...The series is named after Dr. Harris’ seminal book "High on the Hog," which explores and threads together foodways of the African diaspora and the journey to America.

The series is hosted by journalist and founder of @whetstonemagazine Stephen Satterfield (@isawstephen), executive produced by Karis Jagger and Fabienne Toback (@hey_sistah & @savyfaby — who also penned our Issue 01 happy hour cover story of Dr. Jessica B. Harris), directed by Roger Ross Williams (@rogerrosswilliams), with Shoshana Guy (@shoshanaguy) as showrunner.

Thank you for this gift of culinary lessons while honoring our history! We’ll be tuning in with a hearty meal and eager heart.

Swipe to watch the trailer. ❤️🍴🍾✨

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