Happy Black History (Heritage) Month: Black Joy

Experience Black Joy Through Food: African Agriculture & Foodways

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We are the descendants of foundational Americans, the enslaved Africans, and have an extremely rich food heritage. What is amazing to me about our ancestors, is that they were stripped of their land, language, family, and name. To be brutalized just because they exist and in constant oppressive pain while being seen as inhumane. When it came to mealtime, they passed so much love, tradition, and culture to us.

While they bared the pain, of the journeys they walk, and the baggage they carry. They gifted us meals that we can feed our bodies and our soul.
I wanted to share a few of the agricultural gems that are connected to our motherland.

Rice — Carolina Gold

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Rice was transplanted to America by way of the Gullah people of South Carolina and Georgia, who are native to the region of West Africa, now known as Sierra Leone.

Eggplant- Guinea Squash