African Americans who grew up in Chicago and New York around Italians like I did are today consignors of lasagna. Meat and vegan lasagna recipes below.
Nora White, who I talked about in a previous blog, later became a good friend and catering partner with southern migrant Nettie C. Banks. Banks was born in 1921 in the farming community of Samos, Virginia, in Middlesex County. At age seventeen she told her mother she would go to Philadelphia to find work. It was 1938. In Philadelphia, Banks met her husband George, also a migrant from Virginia. They worked as domestics in Philadelphia until the end of World War II when a wealthy white family in Ossining offered them jobs as sleep-in domestics. “At the time that we came up, it was normal that we were sort of regulated to, doomed to do house work.” As caterers, White and Banks saved enough capital to purchase homes in Westchester County. White later returned to her native South Carolina where she and her sisters, some of which migrated to Detroit, purchased homes and retired. In my book Hog and Hominy http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14638-8/hog-and-hominy/excerpt, Nora White tells a funny story about the first time she worked solo for a family and she was called on to make lasagna for dinner. She said sure, but had no clue how to make it. She never ate it growing up in South Carolina. So with a cookbook and soulful intuition the lasagna turned out great! Here are two lasagna recipes—one for hardcore carnivores and the other for vegans:
Traditional lasagna recipe: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Worlds-Best-Lasagna/Detail.aspx
Vegan lasagna recipe: http://vegetarian.about.com/od/maindishentreerecipes/r/wheatlasagna.htm
Upcoming lecture March, 30, 2010
Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie
Long Island University Brooklyn Campus
Speaking about
“Black and Latino Relations in New York 1959-2008”
Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Health Sciences Building, Room 121.
Book signing to follow
This event is free and open to the public
For more information call 718-488-3374
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