Posts tagged food
APHROCHIC MAGAZINE: Food as a Narrative for Liberation An Interview with Tonya Hopkins, “The Food Griot”

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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TFG (that’s me!) Wrote for FOOD & WINE's Current Double Issue Dec 2024 - January 2025 ...

FOOD & WINE Magazine’s special Holiday Double Issue (Dec2024 -Jan2025) celebrates“Holidays Around The World…” and serves up “11 Delicious Ways o Celebrate This Holiday Season” via a range of deliciously diverse recipes & personal essays. The piece I wrote is called: “Kwanzaa: Seven Days of Celebration Offer Endless Opportunities for Connection and Creativity” which you’ll find on pages 184 - 185 in the print edition and/or you can read it ONLINE with the title of: "“How I Use Kwanzaa's Seven Principles to Transform My Holiday Cooking…” by Tonya Hopkins, aka The Food Griot, for FOOD & WINE Magazine….

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April's 2024 DAILY "TFG Culinary & Cultural Calendar" ...

This April 2024 calendar collage gives you just a glimpse of some of the food, drink, cultural, historical and sometimes personal “holidays” happening this month that I think are interesting and suspect you will too. Especially if I happen to have taken good pics relevant to the topic or in some cases have a boatload of food or beverage beauty shots I snapped and saved over the years and wanna show 'em off (i mean SHARE them ;) with you for the visual side of the storytelling. On a more serious note, I check a lot of sources to compile this TFG calendar and am more often than not startled by the blatant “lies of omission” so many mainstream ‘daily holiday’ calendar platforms perpetuate. Outright exclusions of entire cultures, ethnicities, historical facts! ... serving up only slivers of the story. Which is a big part of my motivation for doing this one…

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