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THE FUNKY FLAVOR & GOODNESS OF FLOUR

The city of Boston should be thanking their lucky stars for the wholesome home-style delicious culinary goodness of Flour. I don’t usually write blogs about food,

March 27, 2017 No Comments

Garifuna Food and Culture in Harlem

All Black communities living on the Caribbean coast of Central America are called Garifuna or Black Carib, or as they refer to themselves, Garinagu. The

February 10, 2016 No Comments

The Lost Cookbooks Of Black Chefs

Of the 100,000+ recipe collections published over hundreds of years of American history through the end of the 20th century, only 200 or so have

February 5, 2016 1 Comment

Harlem’s Culinary History

Alvin Starks gestured broadly as he spoke. He was standing in a gallery space in Harlem at the Schomburg Center, a research unit of the

February 5, 2016 No Comments

BARRY’S FUNKY RECIPES

Barry Roberts is “An Outdoorsman,” “one who spends much time in the outdoors or in outdoor activities” according to Webster’s, and very accurate when it

January 27, 2016 No Comments

Chef James Hemmings

Thomas Jefferson is known as a founding father and a founding foodie. Less well-known is the remarkable man who once fed his refined palate: James

October 17, 2015 No Comments

Seattle’s Black Chefs Talk About Their Food And Much More

Edouardo Jordan chef and owner of Salare: Where I grew up, I didn’t have much. When it came to food, I’ve always been thinking about no waste, because

October 13, 2015 No Comments

FUNKING UP The Southern Bar Scene

How Five African-American Women Are Shaking Up Atlanta’s Cocktail Scene.

September 18, 2015 No Comments

The Jemima Code: Celebrating African-American Cookbooks

When 23rd president Benjamin Harrison and his wife, Caroline, fired their French chef and hired Dolly Johnson, a free black woman who had worked for

September 14, 2015 No Comments

African Americans Shake Up Wine Industry Stereotypes

Some of the Black women who were KICKED OFF the Nappa Valley Wine Train.

September 6, 2015 No Comments

An Illustrated History Of Soul Food

James Beard Award-winning author and noted soul-food scholar Adrian Miller unpacks the complex origins of a cuisine rooted in both triumph and anguish.

August 25, 2015 No Comments

10 Black-Owned Ice Cream Shops You Should Know

Today is National Soft Ice Cream Day, so it’s only right that we share some of our favorite black-owned ice cream shops around the country.

August 19, 2015 4 Comments

The Year in Southern Restaurants: The Farmer & the Larder

Matthew Raiford and Jovan Sage get up around dawn most days, to take care of a few regular farm chores: feeding the chickens, checking on

August 15, 2015 No Comments

African Heritage and Health Program

When it comes to working toward a healthier lifestyle, the answers to the problems of obesity, diabetes and diet-related chronic illnesses that threaten our future

July 15, 2015 No Comments

Being A Black Chef In America

A group of chefs speak out about the challenges they face in the restaurant industry, from social pressures to clichéd narratives. This article was written

May 6, 2015 No Comments

Black Rice

West Africans had been growing varieties of rice for several thousand years before the start of the slave trade with the colonies. Should Black folks

December 20, 2014 No Comments

Kelis New Album Food

Food is life. It’s the connective tissue between families, communities and cultures. At base, it’s sustenance, and at its most complex, like when it appears

April 16, 2014 No Comments

Kelis Has A Cooking Show

Kelis’ Cooking Show on The Cooking Channel is Saucy & Sweet.

April 5, 2014 No Comments

How Slavery and African Food Traditions Shaped American Cooking

The Museum Of UnCut Funk celebrates the contributions of Africans and their culinary expertise during slavery. This article was written by Karen Pinchin for National Geographic.

March 24, 2014 No Comments

Harlem’s New Restaurant Renaissance

The jerk prawns with cheese grits at Park 112 in Harlem.

January 5, 2014 No Comments

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