TFG (that’s me!) Wrote for FOOD & WINE's Current Double Issue Dec 2024 - January 2025 ...
By Tonya Hopkins aka “The Food Griot “ (TFG ;) Dec 2024…
This is the cover of the current holiday ‘double issue’ of FOOD & WINE Magazine (Dec 2024 — Jan 2025) on stands now!…
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Me with my immediate plus extended family of aunties, uncles, cousins and such celebrating Kwanzaa together a few moons ago in Southern California, the birthplace (1966) of this uniquely American holiday…
The current FOOD & WINE Magazine (The Holiday Double Issue: Dec2024 -Jan2025) has a special section called “Holidays Around The World… which serves up eleven (11) deliciously diverse recipes to help celebrate the holiday season inclusively (for those who care! — about the inclusive part that is 😆)…One or more recipes are linked to a total of eight (8) showcased historic and culturally-rooted holidays featured in the chronological order in which they occur. Kwanzaa (the primary topic of my article) is # 7 of the total 8 (flanked by Hanukkah and Shōgatsu..) …
As one of the ‘unofficially OFFICIAL’ “Queens of Kwanzaa” on the food & drink front for this fab holiday, I was asked to write a personal holiday essay which you’ll find starts on page 184 in FOOD & WINE’s print edition and/or you can also read it ONLINE ….
⬆️ FOOD & WINE’s “Holidays Around The World…” special starts on page 166 of the print magazine and serves as an anchor article providing context for the “11 Delicious Ways To Celebrate This Holiday Season” — via culturally-rich recipes linked to eight (8) diverse holiday traditions.
My essay includes some of my and my family’s holiday food & drink traditions , particularly Kwanzaa which starts on Dec 26th and ends the evening of January 1st. The title in the print copy is : “Kwanzaa: Seven days of celebration offer endless opportunities for connection and creativity” and contains a recipe for “Brown Stew Chicken” which is a “Black classics” African-Diaspora dish that hails from the Jamaican and Caribbean food cultures. It’s the 10th of a total 11 recipes in this ‘global ‘ holiday section…
The online version of the article has a different title & subtitle which: “How I Use Kwanzaa's Seven Principles to Transform My Holiday Cooking: This African American and Pan African holiday is a celebration of camaraderie and creativity in the kitchen” By Tonya Hopkins, Published on December 9, 2024. You can read the ➡️ ONLINE VERSION HERE ⬅️ …
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WATCH Food Network’s “The Kwanzaa Menu” hosted by Culinary History Consultant, Tonya Hopkins aka “The Food Griot”…