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…
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