Order Deadline: Noon, Tuesday, January 14th
ORDER YOUR NARRATIVE PROVISIONS BOX — DELIVERY Sunday, January 27th
ABOUT THIS BOX
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, we are sharing a favorite box from our archives featuring Edna Lewis, known as the Doyenne of Southern cooking and who also was a supporter of the civil rights movement.
When cooking recipes from Lewis’s “The Gift of Southern Cooking,” we hope you to keep in mind what author Toni Tipton–Martin would consider “culinary reparations” and support one (or more) of the African American writers, artists and culinary creatives on the list curated by our Creative Director – B.Evy-Marie @projectreroot (following the recipes).
BOX RECIPES
• Fried Chicken, Broccoli & Potato Salad
• Butter Basted Pork Chops & Cole Slaw with Sweet Potato Casserole
• Hoppin’ John (Black-eyed peas with rice), Citrus Collards, and opt. Breakfast Sausages
• Mac & Cheese with Green Salad
• Southern Style Portabello Mushrooms with Cornbread
• Pecan Pie
{Various recipes by Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock, “The Gift of Southern Cooking”}
Large Omnivore Narrative Provisions Boxes for the Fried Chicken, Broccoli, & Potato Salad, Pork Chops, Sweet Potato Casserole, & Cole Slaw, Hoppin John with Collards & Sausage, Mac & Cheese with Green Salad, Pecan Pie, and Southern Style Portabello Mushrooms with Cornbread, plus additional staples and fruit
Large Vegetarian Narrative Provisions Boxes for Southern Style Portabello Mushrooms with Cornbread, Mac & Cheese with Green Salad, Pecan Pie, Hoppin’ John, and Sweet Potato Casserole, plus additional staples and fruit
Small Omnivore Narrative Provisions Boxes for Hoppin’ John with Collards & Sausage and the Mac & Cheese with Salad
Small Vegetarian Narrative Provisions Boxes for Hoppin’ John with Collards and Mac & Cheese with Salad
Projects/Artists/Campaigns
Klancy Miller @klancycooks is a cookbook author and writer that recently kicked off a campaign to launch For the Culture, a biannual printed food magazine that celebrates Black women in food and wine. The stories in For the Culture will be about Black women throughout the diaspora, written by Black women and photographed and illustrated by Black women. It will be the first magazine of its kind. Join us in contributing to the For the Culture campaign HERE.
Oriana Koren @orianakoren is a “photo-enthnographer on a mission to expand the decolonized gaze in editorial and commercial food and travel photography by centering the experiences and perspectives of formerly colonized peoples. Over the last five years, Oriana has focused their lens and personal research on African diasporic foodways, mining the intersections of collective memory, revisionist histories, and the migration of Black Americans from the South across the nation.” (quote from their website) Check out their work HERE.
Museum of Food and Drink’s next exhibition African/American: Making the Nation’s Table will be the country’s first major exhibition celebrating the countless black chefs, farmers, and food and drink producers who have laid the foundation for American food culture. The MOFAD curatorial team has been working on this exhibition with Lead Curator Dr. Jessica B. Harris for over two years now, and it is set to be their most powerful show yet. Join us in contributing to this historic exhibition HERE.
Contribute to the Patreon of Krystal C. Mack @absence.of @palatepalette.co who recently launched Digest – a book & supper club. We would love for her to bring Digest to Los Angeles, and you can be a part of making that happen!
Donate cookbooks (and other books!) written by black women to the LA chapter of the Free Black Women’s Library – Los Angeles’s 1st traveling book swap and pop-up library centering all Black women authors. Learn more here.
Experience
Take yourself on a field trip to our favorite cookbook shop, Now Serving, and pick up copies of Toni Tipton-Martin’s Jemima Code and Jubilee – these two books are national treasures that pay homage to two centuries of African American cooking.
One of my (B. Evy-Marie) favorite meals of 2019 was DePorres’s Juneteenth dinner – enjoyed with folks gathered together to honor a holiday often overlooked. We are looking forward to collaborating with Danielle + Pablo in the near future, but in the meantime you can taste their talent at the Hollywood Farmers market. @de__porres
At a recent Row7 dinner, I had the honor of being seated by Omar Tate of dining concept Honeysuckle,” which represents the evolution of the food and culture that has been a part of and sustained the embodiment of the black experience in America.”
Read the following selections from Charlotte Druckman’s anthology, “Women on Food.“
Korsha Wilson’s essay, “Survival Pending Revolution,” discusses the unsung heroes of the civil rights movement.
While you may already have read the abridged version in the Washington Post, take the time to read Osayi Endolyn’s “Trapped In, Dining Out” in it’s entirety.
Check out the interview with culinary anthropologist, Dr. Jessica B. Harris.
Von Diaz’s, “Sitting Still,” may bring you to tears while also inspiring you to make banana pudding.