Did you know that WAFFLE WEEK is always the first full week in September? Or anything about all the amazing hidden Black History behind waffle making right here in America?! I recently discussed that very topic with PBS’s KQED in the context of the history of Chicken & Waffles … I make a cameo or two somewhere in that hyperlinked video and also MOST OF MY WORDS and research are delivered by the host in said video b/c apparently KQED took liberties to turn my commentary into a script for her to read. Rather than to have me appear on camera too much i suppose? It’s ongoing normalized egregious uncredited uncompensated practices like this that are rampant throughout the American media industry that make it necessary for otherwise smart people like me to have to resort to asking people to support my work via Patreon.
SEPT 6TH IS ALSO :
• National Coffee Ice Cream Day! Coffee originates in Africa and America wouldn’t have as amazing an ice cream industry as it has without the creative and culinary ingenuity of Black confectioners, cooks, caterers, etc. since America’s earliest days….
Great Egg Toss Day : my initial thoughts when i saw this and without investigating further were: “his could only come out of an elitist, wasteful food culture”. … and as you can see from this mainstream holiday link it originated in England lol…
National Chianti Day 🍷🇮🇹: one of my fave styles of red wine (made predominantly from the Italian Sangiovese grape) that didn’t originally get the respect it deserved when it came onto the American scene back in the 70’s …
World Food Bank Day… if people in power in the world were more fair and equitable, less wasteful and punitive perhaps there wouldn’t have to be food banks. Thank God nonetheless that they exist and for the people past and present who came up with them as solutions for hunger and malnutrition..