Feeding the Revolution: The Spanish American War Part 3

Photo: above of Afro-Cuban revolutionary troops 1898 and a image of a Cuban Chunky Sweet potato soup. There is also a recipe at the end...

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Feeding the Revolution: The Spanish American War Part 2

Photo above of Cuban revolutionaries cooking an animal they hunted for their lunch in 1898. Image below of Cuban dish ajiaco with a recipe b...

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Feeding the Revolution: The Spanish American War

Ropa vieja (left) a traditional Cuban dish served with fried plantains, black beans, and saffron rice As with the Revolutionary War, Cub...

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Feeding the Revolution: Food and the Continental Army Part 2

In 1776 a group of Mennonites declared themselves passivist refusing to take up arms on either side of the American Revolution. Instead they...

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Feeding the Revolution: Food and the Continental Army

Photo: Succotash his dish that southern colonist incorporated from Native American cookery After spending last week writing about food and ...

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Feeding the Revolution: The 1961 Albany, Georgia Movement Part 2

Pecan pie recipe below! Yesterday we talked about the unsung church mothers in Albany, Georgia (the home of Ray Charles) who feed Ralph Aber...

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Feeding the Revolution: The 1961 Albany, Georgia Movement

Potato salad, recipe below. Around the summer of 1961, NAACP leaders in Albany, Georgia invited SNCC and SCLC leaders to come and discuss a ...

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Feeding the Revolution: SNCC and Vertamae Smart Grosvenor

Awesome buttermilk biscuit recipe below! Born 1938 in Hampton County, South Carolina, Vertamae Smart Grosvenor is among many titles, culinar...

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Feeding the Revolution: SNCC and Paschal’s Restaurant in Atlanta Part II

In 1960, Lonnie King, Julian Bond, Herschelle Sullivan, Carolyn Long, Joseph Pierce, and others Black students from the Atlanta University C...

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Feeding the Revolution: SNCC and Paschal’s Restaurant in Atlanta

Founded in 1960, The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) used the strategy of direct action to advance the desegregation agenda...

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