{"id":49291,"date":"2016-10-02T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49291"},"modified":"2016-10-02T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:03:46","slug":"this-historian-wants-you-to-know-the-real-story-of-southern-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49291","title":{"rendered":"This Historian Wants You To Know The Real Story Of Southern Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/10\/01\/496104487\/this-historian-wants-you-to-know-the-real-story-of-southern-food\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>This Historian Wants You To Know The Real Story Of Southern Food<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt: What&#8217;s On Your Plate<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/weekend-edition-saturday\/2016\/10\/01\/496195942\/weekend-edition-saturday-for-october-1-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Weekend Edition Saturday<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erika_beras\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Erika Beras<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/10\/01\/496104487\/this-historian-wants-you-to-know-the-real-story-of-southern-food\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/09\/30\/michael-twitty-1_custom-0d463a46c82f552049c1762f02afb6e151d76de6-s1600-c85.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KosherSoul\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Twitty<\/a> wants credit given to the enslaved African-Americans who were part of Southern cuisine&#8217;s creation. Here he is in period costume at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monticello\" target=\"_blank\">Monticello<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> estate.<br \/>\n<em>Erika Beras for NPR<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/496104487\/496196066\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KosherSoul\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Twitty<\/a> wants you to know where Southern food really comes from. And he wants the enslaved African-Americans who were part of its creation to get credit. That&#8217;s why Twitty goes to places like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monticello\" target=\"_blank\">Monticello<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s<\/a> grand estate in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlottesville,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Charlottesville, Va.<\/a> \u2014 to cook meals that slaves would have eaten and put their stories back into American history.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent September morning, Twitty is standing behind a wooden table at Monticello&#8217;s Mulberry Row, which was once a sort of main street just below the plantation. It&#8217;s where hundreds of Jefferson&#8217;s slaves once lived and worked. Dozens of people watch as Twitty prepares to grill a rabbit over an open fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look \u2013 it&#8217;s better than chicken,&#8221; he tells the audience&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Twitty is black, Jewish and gay. He writes about all those things on his blog <a href=\"https:\/\/afroculinaria.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afroculinaria<\/a> and increasingly, in mainstream media publications. His mission is to explain where American food traditions come from, and to shed light on African-Americans&#8217; contributions to those traditions \u2013 which most historical accounts have long ignored. He says little is documented about what slaves ate. It&#8217;s just a line here and a line there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was no sense of their personal stories, no sense of their familial ties, no sense of their personal likes or dislikes,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It was just straight up a very bland, neutral version of history.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/10\/01\/496104487\/this-historian-wants-you-to-know-the-real-story-of-southern-food\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the story <a href=\"https:\/\/ondemand.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/wesat\/2016\/10\/20161001_wesat_this_historian_wants_you_to_know_the_real_story_of_southern_food.mp3?orgId=1&amp;topicId=1091&amp;d=278&amp;p=7&amp;story=496104487&amp;t=progseg&amp;e=496195942&amp;seg=10&amp;siteplayer=true&amp;dl=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Historian Wants You To Know The Real Story Of Southern Food The Salt: What&#8217;s On Your Plate Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2016-10-01 Erika Beras Michael Twitty wants credit given to the enslaved African-Americans who were part of Southern cuisine&#8217;s creation. Here he is in period costume at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s Virginia estate. 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