Martin Luther King and Southern Food: Montgomery’s “Club from No Where” Part 2

Photo of a MIA Taxi Yesterday I started talking about the Club from No Where, MLK, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. The boycott laste...

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Martin Luther King and Southern Food: Montgomery’s “Club from No Where”

Recipe below Yesterday I started talking about MLK, Georgia Gilmore, food, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (see yesterdays post for backgroun...

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Martin Luther King and Southern Food: Montgomery’s Georgia Gilmore

Photo: Georgia Gilmore, the women whose cooking feed the black revolution in Montgomery, Alabama After MLK graduated from Morehouse, he left...

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Martin Luther King and Southern Food: The Morehouse Years

Photo: 1948 MLK graduation from Morehouse photo taken with his sister Christine who graduated from Spelman the same year. MLK attended Moreh...

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Martin Luther King and Southern Food: Feeding the Preacher

Martin Luther King's (MLK) Birthday is right around the corner, so I have him on my mind. For me MLK, the black church, Atlanta, and Mo...

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Sweet Potato Biscuits

Photo of sweet potato casserole Here’s a treat I recently concocted from Holiday leftovers that I have dubbed sweet potato biscuits. Ov...

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Grandma Duers' North Carolina Lima bean Soup

When I was home for winter break, I believe it was in 1984 and it was my junior year at Syracuse; I had a bizarre food encounter at my grand...

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“Old Christmas:” January 6th Food Traditions

Photo of a scrumptious roasted chicken, traditional and vegan recipes below. Yesterday I talked about the January 6, the he Day of Epiphany,...

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It Still Christmas: Feast of the Three Kings

Three Kings bread, recipes below You’ve heard the song the Twelve Days of Christmas. But, what does that actually mean? Most folks celebra...

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New Year’s Resolutions Part III: Drinking, Walking, and Biking

The nutritionist and medical professionals that I interviewed for my book Hog and Hominy made many suggestions to help improve our health. I...

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Food and New Year’s Resolutions: Part II Food Rebels

Photo of Malcolm X taking a picture of and Muhammad Ali at a luncheonette counter. They are examples of food rebels I talk about in the book...

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