Chesapeake Bay – The Cooking Gene

I want you to meet someone.I want you to meet Babatunde. That's not really his name---Babatunde is a Yoruba name meaning "Father Has Returned." This man, one of our ancestors--was not Yoruba. According to the caption in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural Hisotry, he lived in the mid-18th century near Annapolis, Maryland and he had …

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Groundnut Wings

GROUNDNUT WINGSPreheat oven to 375. You need: 2.5 pounds of chicken wings, drumettes separated from wing portion and tip if possible 2 tablespoons of West African wet seasoning 2 tablespoons of light brown sugar, Demerara sugar, turbinado sugar, coconut sugar or palm sugar.1 tablespoon of suya spice2 tablespoons of low sodium soy sauce 1/4 cup of water […]

Happy 10 Year Anniversary

Thank you all for being here for a decade. I know I’ve been light for a while here but life has been a roller-coaster. I started this blog January 12, 2011. I was inspired by Julie and Julia. I thought if she can do it, I can too! I never really accomplished as much as […]

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American Food and Race: Ten Things I Learned from Writing and Living The Cooking Gene

At the end of the prologue to my book The Cooking Gene (HarperCollins Amistad imprint, 2017/2018) I reflected on whether or not the Southern table could give us some insight into America’s second original sin–the enslavement of Africans and the consequences that resulted: “The lazy, laughing South / With blood on its mouth /And I, […]

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