APHROCHIC: Food as a Narrative for Liberation

Food as a Narrative for Liberation

Interview By Bryan Maosn and Janine Hays

An Interview with Tonya Hopkins, The Food Griot Food is history. It's a truth we rarely reflect on, and even more rarely appreciate - but we should. Think about it. How much of our identities, our attachment to our own cultures and our connection with others come through the things we like to eat? Then there's the question of power, which in terms of food covers everything from who gets to eat, to which foods are considered cuisine. And America's erasure of Black people from its food history, like its history of home, is no small factor in upholding our exclusion from its fundamental sense of self. And of course. there's the money. The food industry in America alone is worth around $1.5 trillion every year. How much of that money is built on the contributions and inventions of Black people, enslaved or free, inventor or chef? since the very first days of this nation?

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