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Where/Who We Are Now
Afroculinaria is about to change for the better in several ways…more frequent posts, more recipes, more how-to and more reports on what I’m learning in the world of food and cooking from new friends...
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Interesting Recipe of the Week: Rufus Estes Fried Chicken, Squash Flower...
“FRIED CHICKEN—Cut up two chickens. Put a quarter of a pound of butter, mixed with a spoonful of flour, into a saucepan with pepper, salt, little vinegar, parsley, green onions, carrots and turnips,...
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A Photo Essay: The Best of 2012 at Afroculinaria Part One
With Andrew Zimmern after taping part of Bizarre Foods America Washington DC Meeting James Meredith, Activist, Teacher, Elder who Integrated the University of Mississippi With Dr. Henry Louis...
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A Memory
A Memory I seem to remember My grandmother fighting grease on summer mornings Dodging sputtering bacon fat like a fencer as she made fried green tomatoes From our little garden the size of a mustard...
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Who is this Guy?
Tonight about 9 pm EST/8 CST, I’m going to cringe in absolute self-judgement as my mug pops over the screens of many many people as I work my way through cooking with one of my culinary heroes, Andrew...
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Recap: Interview on Hot Grease
Outside of Roberta’s and the Heritage Radio Network Studios: Photo By Nicole Taylor Just in case you haven’t heard it yet, the wonderful Nicole Taylor (@foodculturalist) had me and my good friends...
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This Weekend at Bacon’s Castle, Surry, VA
Afro-Atlantic Foodways with Culinary Historian, Michael Twitty 18th and 19th century Southern Afro- Atlantic cuisine, featuring Michael Twitty Saturday, March 30, 2013 Michael W. Twitty is a culinary...
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Just in Case You Wanted to Listen In, The Kojo Nnamdi Show Interview
This was a great afternoon, too short, too short!!! Denzell Mitchell of Five Seeds Farm @5seedsfarm on Twitter and I were hosted on WAMU 88.5 by Kojo Nnamdi (@KojoShow) Special thanks to Mike M....
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Get It While You Can: Collard Flower Vinegar
So right now I’m at a food studies workshop at Indiana University/Bloomington, hanging out with a lot of the great food studies academics of our time, and on my first scholar in residence visit!...
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A Response to Your Responses: Part One
Posing with two sisters who survived the Holocaust and later fought for Civil Rights in Alabama; Temple Beth El, Birmingham 2012 You see these two ladies in Birmingham, Alabama? I would have LOVED for...
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Morning on a Plantation Before the Civil War
Let the ancestors talk…. Ham and Bacon Hanging in the Smokehouse Charley Williams, WPA “Slave Narratives,” Louisiana “De plantations was about as big as any. I think it had about three hundred acres,...
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Historic Stagville slave re-enactment serves another side of history | News |...
http://www.thedurhamnews.com/2013/09/10/3180679/historic-stagville-slave-re-enactment.html
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Culinary historian Michael Twitty celebrates cultural roots of Southern fare...
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/09/14/3191419/culinary-historian-michael-twitty.html Great article by Andrea Weigl! Pulls it altogether!
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Stagville Harvest Dinner Featuring Michael Twitty | La Buena Vida
http://thedish22.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/stagville-harvest-dinner-featuring-michael-twitty/ Torriano Fredericks brings it with mote coverage from the Stagville event. New blog posts and recipes coming...
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The Food World’s G-20 – WSJ.com
http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/a/SB10001424127887323527004579079493496891538?mg=reno64-wsj#articleTabs%3Darticle
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Heritage gardening, farming at Old Salem – Michael Hastings – WS Journal
http://m.journalnow.com/home_food/columnists/michael_hastings/article_b9bbe8f4-2ae3-11e3-928a-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm Enjoy this article about the conference I spoke at during an appearance at Old...
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The Difference a Month Makes
On August 1, 2013, I received an email from Rene Redzepi (that’s the back of his head in the picture above) chef-proprietor of the “world’s best restaurant,” (I concur…). I was asked to speak at the...
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BBC – Culture – Slavery on film: What is Hollywood’s problem?
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20131015-hollywood-scared-of-slavery Read this as soon as you can and make plans to go see 12 Years A Slave. Thank you Steve McQueen, thank you Brad Pitt. In selected...
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Tune in Tonight: Many Rivers to Cross With Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
With Dr. Henry Louis Gates wrapping up taping of part of Many Rivers to Cross I am delighted to announce tlhat I will be appearing on the first episode of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross...
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So…what was on that table?????: Follow Up to “Many Rivers to Cross”
So first off, if you haven’t seen it, the first episode of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, “The Black Atlantic,” is available to watch UNTIL 10/22/2017 (okay so you have a minute but don’t...
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