I went to MOFAD to listen the talk event by black cook, caterer, and farmer.
Now, Mai is researching about farms so hard. The US is one of the biggest agricultural country in this planet. At first, this is just small small small curious about milk. In front of the store shelves, we had gotten puzzled why there are so many varieties and ways of milk. Caffe also ask you “which milk?” I couldn’t answer well.
Its panelists were chef-farmer and author Matthew Raiford, culinary historian Michael Twitty and Adrian Lipscombe. First and foremost, Mai had known about the founder of 40 Acers Project, Adrian Lipscombe. This project is one of the on-going triumph like a black renaissance in agriculture. Historically, the discrimination didn’t allow blacks own their property, also land and livestocks other than chickens. “40 acres and a mule” is what Union Army promise to treat to African Americans but they broke it. I didn’t know that. By now, some black farmers started to own their land and do agriculture in independence way. Lipscombe got fundraising, make black own farm and educate many now.
I am curious about it by Mai told me. Now, I want to read the book, Black Food. Adrian Lipscombe also showed her “collard greens” recipe in this book. Lipscombe introduced this book as follow:
“The sharing of Black American stories through Black foodways raises the spirit, as well as the appetite. It’s a coffee table book that you can read in the kitchen while you’re waiting for my collard greens recipe to simmer on the stove.”
May. 31, 2022