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Interview with Andi Cumbo-Floyd, author of “The Slaves Have Names”
The people who lived enslaved in Central Virginia at plantations like the Bremo properties were highly industrious and skilled laborers who provided much of their own food. Outside the provided common...
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Meet Ira Wallace of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Ira Wallace, author of The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast, is a Central Virginia Master Gardener and a worker/owner of the cooperatively managed Southern Exposure Seed...
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Virginia Conversations: Afro-Cuisine | Virginia Public Radio
http://virginiapublicradio.org/2014/02/07/virginia-conversations-afro-cuisine/ Today’s Virginia Conversations, for Black History Month a discussion on African Virginian foodways. ENJOY!
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The Best Quote in Virginia Food History
I am not prepared to dispute these points, but I am tolerably certain that a few other things besides bacon and greens are required to make a true Virginian. He must, of course, begin on pot-liquor,...
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Speaking of Virginia Food History. .
Virginia was a huge colony then commonwealth that played, with its neighbor Maryland, an extraordinary role in the development of proto – Southern cuisine. Long before the Carolina-Georgia Lowcountry...
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Poplar Forest cooking event focuses on food, culture of enslaved community –...
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In the Monticello Kitchen: A Photo Essay
I don’t have a lot of time to write this week, but I thought U would take time to address a few matters and share with you images from this year’s Heritage Harvest Festival at Thomas Jefferson’s...
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IWatch “Food of the Enslaved: Barbecue” on YouTube
I loved partnering with Jason Townsend&Sons, my favorite historic clothier and provider of historic goods to produce a few videos for their wildly popular You Tube series on cooking in the 18th...
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Watch “Food of the Enslaved: Akara” on YouTube
I loved partnering with Jason Townsend&Sons, my favorite historic clothier and provider of historic goods to produce a few videos for their wildly popular You Tube series on cooking in the 18th...
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My Response to #Charlottesville
http://forward.com/food/380133/im-black-jewish-and-gay-and-food-is-my-weapon-against-bigotry/
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