High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America

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11/09/21

Today, most businesses listed in the Green Book are now closed and often forgotten… that is not the case for Dooky Chase's Restaurant. In this episode of Safe Haven, Kara St. Cyr enjoys gumbo with Stella Reese Chase and Edgar Chase III. They discuss the restaurant’s role in the civil rights movement and legacy of this world famous New Orleans establishment.

 

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Show had my stommuh so hongry.

 

[Ahadi]

Can’t wait for season 2

 

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Who grew up eating poke salad or some variation of it?





My dad cooked this a lot growing up with spinach as a substitute.

Note the addition of eggs in both videos, scrambled in or boiled, however it is not intended as a breakfast dish.

The only dish I’ve found similar that I know of variations of kontomire/spinach stew that are cooked with egg, same kind of application.





Anybody grew up with this or something similar? This question is for any of the diaspora, I’m tryna see something…

 

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Who grew up eating poke salad or some variation of it?


My dad cooked this a lot growing up with spinach as a substitute.

Note the addition of eggs in both videos, scrambled in or boiled, however it is not intended as a breakfast dish.

The only dish I’ve found similar that I know of variations of kontomire/spinach stew that are cooked with egg, same kind of application.




Anybody grew up with this or something similar? This question is for any of the diaspora, I’m tryna see something…

My cousin's Ghanaian wife makes the last dish.

* The boiled egg on a dinner plate is a signature from the part of the country her Dad was from.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Benne Is Bursting with South Carolina History and Flavor


Benne Is Bursting with South Carolina History and Flavor



The Vanished Banquet: Benne Soup On Carolina Gold Long Grain Rice

Benne seed, or sesame seed, was one of the five most important foodstuffs brought by slaves from West Africa to North America. An entire African-American cuisine grew up around the plant of which only the benne wafer, a cookie associated with Charleston, and benne candy, a favorite confection of the West Indies, survive.

White planters took up the plant in the early 18th century as a source for oil, when experiments in olive cultivation proved unsuitable for most of the south. By the early 19th century it was widely planted from Virginia to Missouri. Of the favorite slave dishes — benne and hominy, benne and greens, and benne soup — only the last entered into southern cuisine generally.

Robert M. Goodwin of Skidaway Island, George, observed in 1824, that for “negroes in this part of the country . . . it [benne] is thought . . . to be much better in soup than okra, and it is used by them in the same manner.” Sarah Rutledge, author of the Carolina Housewife, included a “Bennie Soup” with oysters in her landmark cookbook. But the simpler, classic soup, was consumed more widely, often served over grits or rice, a new world approximation of the Mende treat, fou-fou.

The Vanished Banquet: Benne Soup on Carolina Gold Long Grain Rice — Carolina Gold Rice Foundation

 

[havoc]

Her Maundy Thursday Gumbo resembles so much like Nigerian Ifo Riro Soup.

Haitian people have a similar dish. We called it legume.

Haitian legume with shrimp - Google Search

 

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How this husband-and-wife team are making it easier to find Black-owned restaurants

February 14, 2022

 

[ReasonableMatic]

I'm a long time fan of the book. Dr. Harris is perhaps the world's leading expert on African & Diaspora cuisine, having lived and studied in multiple countries. Her firsthand knowledge of West Africa is on full display in episode 1.Navigating the markets, speaking French to the lady vendor/waitress/restaurant owner, even in subtle way as they dine at the home of the artist.
Part of the excitement of the series was seeing it start off in Benin, rather than the places that are the usual locations for doc.s about African connections.

The natural spinoff for the series would be for them to do one for the Caribbean. English speaking, Spanish speaking, and French speaking. She has firsthand experience about the region, and perhaps could executive produce & collaborate with local historians and writers.

The Diaspora can’t forget the Dutch speaking Caribbean in this list

Suriname, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, Saba and Sint Eustatius

One 3rd of enslaved Africans that were shipped to America went through Curaçao.

Season 2 is a must-watch

 

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The Diaspora can’t forget the Dutch speaking Caribbean in this list

Suriname, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, Saba and Sint Eustatius

One 3rd of enslaved Africans that were shipped to America went through Curaçao.

Season 2 is a must-watch

Oh, absolutely. Pardon the ommission. There's a Caribbean foodways thread in this section of the board. Looking forward to you contributing to it.

Now, I'm interested in seeing how the HOTH series did in different countries.

* Did not know that Curacao was such a hub of the slave trade.

 

[ReasonableMatic]

Oh, absolutely. Pardon the ommission. There's a Caribbean foodways thread in this section of the board. Looking forward to you contributing to it.

Now, I'm interested in seeing how the HOTH series did in different countries.

* Did not know that Curacao was such a hub of the slave trade.

All love fam.
Can you send me a link to the thread if you can, this is my first time on this section of the forum.

Lemme show you sumn.

This picture I took personally when I visited Curaçao. It’s litteraly the place where enslaved Africans stood before bein sold.
Those poles is where they were whipped in front of eachother. That bell would get rung 3 times.

I stood there bro. I held the shackles.
I’ve seen the torture equipment.
It’s one of the key places where families were torn apart at that very spot in the picture.

Our story as those of African descent can only be fully understood by studying eachother across the Diaspora because parts of it are left throughout it.

Curaçao was “the heart” of the slavetrade.
The Spanish called it “Corazon” meaning “The Heart” in Portuguese.

“Corazon” became “Curaçao”

To dig deeper and leave another jewel.

Carib came from the word “Caniba” in Carib language (The Caribs are indigenous tribe in the region of The Caribbean/South-America)

Carib was a word the Caribs used to describe the Aruaca (Arawak) and means “bravery”

This means, the Caribbean / South-America is LITTERALY: “the Home of The Brave”

In the language of it’s Indigenous people

Columbus and The Spanish took Caniba,
the honorable Carib word for bravery and changed it’s definition into a negative meaning we know now as “maneater”

The fact these things aren’t taught to us universally across the Diaspora is a crime to us of African Descent.