“11 Delicious Ways to Celebrate This Holiday Season” …TFG (that’s me!) Shares Savory (& Sweet) Suggestions in FOOD & WINE's Holiday Double Issue Dec 2024 - Jan 2025 ...
By Tonya Hopkins aka “The Food Griot “ (TFG) Dec 20th 2024…
This is the cover of the current holiday ‘double issue’ of FOOD & WINE Magazine (Dec 2024 — Jan 2025) on stands now! The essay/article I wrote is on pages 184-185 🤩🤓 ….
Click onto the (semi- blurred) image above to read the online version of the personal essay I wrote sharing insights and suggestions based on my and my family’s food & drink traditions throughout the Kwanzaa holiday. Or JOIN MY PATREON platform for access to a special PDF version of the article, recipe + bonus TFG material NOT found in the magazine …
Me with my immediate plus extended family of aunties, uncles, cousins and such celebrating Kwanzaa together in Southern California, the birthplace of this uniquely American holiday…
The current issue of FOOD & WINE Magazine on stands now has a special section called “Holidays Around The World: from St. Lucia’s Day in Sweden to New Year’s in Japan” serving up eleven (11) deliciously diverse recipes to help celebrate this holiday season inclusively (for those who care! 😆)…Each recipe is linked to one of eight (8) total showcased holidays or traditions featured in chronological order and Kwanzaa (my article topic) is # 7 of the total 8.
As one of the ‘unofficially OFFICIAL’ “Queens of Kwanzaa” when it comes to food & drink for this fab holiday— yours truly (moi/ me /I 😁) was asked to write a personal essay for their Holiday Double Issue (Dec2024 -Jan2025). You’ll find it on pages 184 - 185 of FOOD & WINE magazine’s current print edition and/or you can also read it ONLINE (see links below)….
⬆️ FOOD & WINE’s “Holidays Around The World…” special starts on page 166 of the magazine in print 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. The relatively ‘new’, uniquely American Kwanzaa (b. 1966) holiday is the 7th of the 8 featured traditions as per the sequence each holiday occurs on the December - January calendars.
In the physical magazine, the essay covers some of my and my family’s food & drink traditions for Kwanzaa (Dec 26th - Jan 1st) and is titled : “Kwanzaa: Seven days of celebration offer endless opportunities for connection and creativity” starts on page 184 and contains the 10th (of a total 11 recipes in this global holiday section): “Brown Stew Chicken” — a classic African-Diaspora dish hailing from Jamaican and Caribbean food cultures….
The online version of the article has a slightly different title & subtitle: “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”…