Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong and New Orleans Creole Gumbo

New Orleans Creole gumbo recipes below in traditional and vegan forms Today I going to kill to birds with one stone: I am doing a black hist...

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Satchmo's Mom Mayann Could Cook

A New Orleans “Cubie Yon” as jazz great Louie Armstrong called his mom’s tomato based fish stew; recipe below The grandson of a slave,...

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Adam Clayton Powell Jr and His Southern Culinary Roots

Photo: codfish cakes (recipe below), black beans, home fries, and a salad Adam Clayton Powell Jr. became the first African American to...

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Langston Hughes on Food in Lodging in the Jim Crow South

In celebration of black history month, I will be posting stories on food and history. I have a lot of sources that I found in doing research...

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Before the 1960 Student Sit-in Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina

Photo: North Carolina A & T students who started the student sit-in movement in 1960 On February 1, 1960, 50 years ago today, students E...

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Feeding the Revolution: The Spanish American War Part 4

Photo: Cuban Mango Bread, recipe below Been talking about the role of food in the Cuban War for Independence 1895-1898. Revolutionaries had...

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