Senin, 15 Februari 2010

Dr. Alvenia Fulton: Look What's Cooking on the South Side of Chicago


Vegetarian chili and corn bread, recipes below

In 1958 Dr. Alvenia Moody Fulton, a migrant from Pulaski, Tennessee, became founder and director of the Fultonia Health and Fasting Institute and, eventually, Fultonia’s, a combination health food store, restaurant, and herbal pharmacy at 65th and Eberhardt on Chicago’s South Side. She earned a degree from an unknown seminary and a doctorate of naturopathic medicine from Lincoln College of Naturopathy in Indianapolis. But the years she earned the degrees are unknown. Eventually Fulton relocated her to store to 53rd Street. Her store, “a kind of hodgepodge” of health foods and alternative health products, was in a rough part of the city but the criminals protected and looked out for her. “The word on the Southside was leave that old lady alone,” she cares about us. In 1962, the married couple, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee met Fulton when they went to her store while in Chicago performing Purlie Victorious. The entire cast was invited to Fulton’s store and home for dinner. “She prepared an unusual, most tasteful meal. It wasn’t until it was over that we realized that no meat had been served. The meat substitutes were delicious, fulfilling, and only a small part of the vegetables feast, topped off with a marvelous dessert and a truly believable coffee substitute.” The dinner, writes Ruby Dee, “was the beginning of a long relationship in which she changed my way of thinking about food. She not only showed me better ways to prepare and enjoy it, but also introduced me to the concept of food as medicine.” More on Fulton later but here are several recipes for vegetarian chili which was a dish on Dr. Fulton restaurant menu.

Vegetarian chili recipes: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/cat/1275/

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