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How Enslaved Chefs Helped Shape American Cuisine
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 199" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-enslaved-chefs-helped-shape-american-cuisine-180969697/" target="_blank"><strong>How Enslaved Chefs Helped Shape American Cuisine - Smithsonian Magazine</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>Black cooks created the feasts that gave the South its reputation for hospitality</em></p><p></p><p>We need to forget about this so we can heal,” said an elderly white woman, as she left my lecture on the history of enslaved cooks and their influence on American cuisine. Something I said, or perhaps everything I said, upset her.</p><p></p><p>My presentation covered 300 years of American history that started with the forced enslavement of millions of Africans, and which still echoes in our culture today, from the myth of the “happy servant” (think Aunt Jemima on the syrup bottle) to the broader marketing of black servitude (as in TV commercials for Caribbean resorts, targeted at white American travelers). I delivered the talk to an audience of 30 at the Maier Museum of Art in Lynchburg, Virginia. While I had not anticipated the woman’s displeasure, trying to forget is not an uncommon response to the unsettling tale of the complicated roots of our history, and particularly some of our beloved foods.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 199, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-enslaved-chefs-helped-shape-american-cuisine-180969697/'][B]How Enslaved Chefs Helped Shape American Cuisine - Smithsonian Magazine[/B][/URL] [I]Black cooks created the feasts that gave the South its reputation for hospitality[/I] We need to forget about this so we can heal,” said an elderly white woman, as she left my lecture on the history of enslaved cooks and their influence on American cuisine. Something I said, or perhaps everything I said, upset her. My presentation covered 300 years of American history that started with the forced enslavement of millions of Africans, and which still echoes in our culture today, from the myth of the “happy servant” (think Aunt Jemima on the syrup bottle) to the broader marketing of black servitude (as in TV commercials for Caribbean resorts, targeted at white American travelers). I delivered the talk to an audience of 30 at the Maier Museum of Art in Lynchburg, Virginia. While I had not anticipated the woman’s displeasure, trying to forget is not an uncommon response to the unsettling tale of the complicated roots of our history, and particularly some of our beloved foods. [/QUOTE]
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