Photo: Georgia Gilmore, the women whose cooking feed the black revolution in Montgomery, Alabama
After MLK graduated from Morehouse, he left the South from 1948 to 1953 to attend graduate school in Pennsylvania and Boston. By age 24, MLK earned a Master’s of divinity and doctorate degree. He then married Coretta Scott and moves to Montgomery, Alabama become Pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. In Montgomery King lived just three blocks from Georgia Gilmore a renowned cook in that city. When the bus boycott started in 1955, Gilmore testified in court in support of it and her employer, the National Lunch Company where she worked as a cook, fired her. MLK, who knew from personal experience that the women cook put her foot in it (that’s southern for really cook!), both encouraged her and gave her the capital necessary start a catering business and restaurant out of her home. Gilmore had both black and white customers and folks from all walks of life who came to love her fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, stuffed pork chops, stuffed peppers, and chitins with cole slaw. Anytime VIP’s came to town King would bring them to Gilmore’s restaurant for a batch of her Friday Chicken. In addition MLK would often retreat there to a get a good and safe home cooked meal. I will have more on MLK, Gilmore, food, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott tomorrow. Below are some fried chicken recipe for you:
Butter milk based fried chicken video recipe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxEhH6MPH28
Traditional soul food type fried chicken recipe with audio: http://www.thegutsygourmet.net/fryed-chix.html
Lecture and Book Signing: Frederick Douglass Opie, "Feeding the Revolution," A Discussion of the Foods of the Civil Rights Movement
Date: Sunday January 17, 2010
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: St. Augustine's Episcopal Church
Street: 6 Old Post Rd North
City/Town: Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520
Phone: 914- 271-3501
Email: august@bestweb.net
Driving Directions to St. Augustine's
From the North or South:
Take Rte 9/9A.
Exit at the Croton exit labeled Rte 129.
At the end of the exit ramp, turn right, away from the river.
At the 2nd traffic light (you will be facing a CVS and post office parking lot), turn left onto Rte. 129, Maple Ave.
Turn left at the 1st traffic light onto Old Post Rd So.-- (Kathleen Reidy, Law Office is on the far lefthand corner.)
Go one block to "T" junction: there is a traffic light in the middle of the road.
Turn left onto Grand St.
Go one block to the corner of Grand St. & Old Post Road North.
There we are!
From the Taconic Parkway:
Take the Underhill Rd exit off the Taconic.
Turn West toward Croton-on-Hudson.
Turn Right onto Rte. 129 where Underhill dead-ends at the bottom of a steep hill.
Coming into Croton, there is a "Y" where Grand St. branches to the right off of 129. A sign for Perry Kennedy Real Estate sits in front of a small house that is in the fork of the "Y"
Take the Right fork of the "Y" onto Grand St.
Continue a short few
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