Thanksgiving Day Series: Part 2 Using the Last Fruits of the Growing Season

Smothered shrimp over fried green tomatoes, recipe below Here’s a dish I created that’s rooted in sustainable gardening. This time of the ye...

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Thanksgiving Day Series: Part 1 Heirloom Recipes

Pecan pie, recipe below The Thanksgiving table is never considered complete if you can’t fill up a least one separate table with desert...

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Feeding the Revolution in Jackson, Mississippi Part 2

M ississippi delta tamale, recipe below Yesterday I started a Veterans Day post talking about WWII veteran and civil rights activist Me...

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Feeding the Revolution in Jackson, Mississippi Part I

Pig ear sandwiches from the Big Apple Inn in Jackson, Mississippi , recipe and additional links below President Woodrow Wilson is the ...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: President Obama's Indonesian Childhood

Spicy pad Thai, recipes below This is the last in a series of post on spicy hot flavored foods. In Dutch colonial Indonesia (1800-1942) eli...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: Cooling Down in Asia, Africa, and America

Jambalaya served with corn brread, recipes below Beginning with the Portuguese in the 1470s, elite European explorers and colonizers came i...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: Heating Up Europe

Portuguese Piri piri chicken and tomato salad, recipes below Historically there has been a race and class dimension to the custom of ea...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: Part 4 Hot Is A Relative Term

Bhindi Do Pyaza (spicy okra with onions), recipe below One of my wife’s good friends has deep roots in Alabama including an under gradu...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: Part 3 Simple Low Country Seafood Dishes

Spicy shrimp and grits, recipe below I am in the midst of a series on spicy hot food. In my kitchen I have wonderful framed picture of ...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: Part 2 Culinary Adaptations

Spicy roasted fava beans with chili powder and lemon Above, L o cro, a thick and spicy South American fava bean soup (almost a stew) , re...

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Spicy Hot Food Series: Part 1 Cooking With Hot Peppers Is Ancient History

Spicy roasted pumpkin seeds, recipes below I am starting a new series today on spicy foods before transitioning to a Thanksgiving serie...

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Who Got Out the Vote In Depression Era St. Louis?

St Louis style pizza, recipe below During the Depression poet Maya Angelou, born in 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri lived with her Grandmother. ...

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Election Day Traditions in Boston

Election Day cake, recipes below I started talking about the role of food in electoral politics and get out the vote strategies last week (...

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Getting Out the Vote in North Carolina

Tomato bread pudding, recipe below In 1933 the Federal National Relief Agency (NRA) chose Tyron, North Carolina for one of its surplus ...

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Getting Out the Vote in North Carolina

Tomato bread pudding, recipe below In 1933 the Federal National Relief Agency (NRA) chose Tyron, North Carolina for one of its surplus ...

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