White women in the south don’t know how to cook
Last week I watched this YouTube video about a 3rd gen restaurant that makes box lunches in some where Virginia. The front of the house was all white and the owners were white. The people making these labor intensive box lunches were all Black and some of the workers there were 2nd and 3rd gen workers. Watching the video really pissed me off because the people making the food could easily make their own restaurant and the owners wouldn’t know what to do. The owners couldn’t fire the people that prepare their box lunches, not all at once anyways. When the owners said we take care of our people it made sick.
Another restaurant story that pissed me off was this cafe in Charleston S.C. The owners parents had maid to cook their meals. When the woman was getting on years owners asked their former maid to work in the kitchen and teach their chef her recipes. Don’t worry they have a picture of the woman in the restaurant.
All “good ol’ fashioned southern’ cookbooks” were stolen recipes from black women, usually with a smiling ugly racist white woman on the cover.
It’s fucking disgusting
So, a lot of people are offended by this post, and I’m honestly, truly, wholeheartedly, and deeply sorry, that you would think I would give a fuck, about your fucking opinion.
I’m just blocking to save myself from hearing your worthless opinions any further.
here is alton brown saying the same thing - http://twobrowngirlstalkback.tumblr.com/post/147184677153/alton-always-coming-with-the-receipts-get-on-that
Basically, like it *should* be common knowledge that traditional southern cooking was created in black kitchens
Southern/Soul food is rooted in African tradition. Peanuts, also called ground-nuts, were brought to North American from Africa; you can’t stop at a gas station in the south without seeing “boiled p-nuts” for sale. We also call them goobers, which comes from the word “nguba.”
Rice known as “Carolina Gold” wouldn’t have been a cash crop without the knowledge of slaves from West Africa, who already knew how to cultivate it and were sold to plantations because of this skill.
American food traditions, especially in the south, can and should be attributed to the Africans brought here against their will who kept parts of their culture alive despite grueling hardships.
I can’t tell you how many articles I’ve read where southern chefs go to Dakar and find the same food they’ve been making all their lives
