The Citizen Recommends: Philly Farm Social
The Citizen Recommends: Philly Farm Social
WURD'due south evening at Bartram'southward Garden will feature The Citizen'southward new Foodizen podcaster, food historian Tonya Hopkins. Here, she talks virtually the influence of African Americans on American nutrient
May. 29, 2019
Our world of foodie civilization is vast, and varied, especially in the United States, with the medley of ethnicities and flavors and ideas that make upwardly our "national" cuisine. But what most nutrient obsessives probably don't realize is from where so many of our food community derive: Blackness Americans.
Starting this summertime, food and drinkable historian Tonya Hopkins—who goes by The Food Griot —will be recording stories for The Citizen virtually the history of African American food and drink in Philadelphia, a relate, really, of food in America. Everything from farm to table, fine dining, the evolution of restaurants and the celebrity chef, have roots in African American culture. After all, equally Hopkins said last week on WURD's Reality Cheque, where she has started to co-host a WURD/Citizen food segment with host Charles Ellison, "At ane point in time, we were the cooks of the nation."
"I come at food history from a uniquely American lens—past which I mean African American, specifically, equally a special group that has a special link to food history," Hopkins said. "When we talk near black food and blackness food civilization, information technology'south American food culture because we played such a huge role in food ways in this country."
On Friday, Hopkins will lead a chat at Bartram'south Garden's Sankofa Community Farm, which grows produce from the African diaspora with students and community volunteers, and so sells it at local farmers markets. Equally part of WURD'southward Philly Farm Social, Hopkins will talk with Sankofa co-director Christopher Bolden Newsome, and assistant farmer Laquanda Dobson, a member of the Blackness Dirt Farm Collective. They volition explore the historic and modernistic worlds of black urban farming, with a focus on the benefits of black diaspora food, culinary arts, good for you customs eating and dietary lifestyle habits.
The event will besides feature live cooking demonstrations, food tasting and wine pairing.
Listen to Hopkins talking about her piece of work, and the Philly Farm Social, on the Foodizen segment of Reality Check here:
Friday, May 31, v pm-7 pm, $xv for ForWurd Members/$25 for non-Members, Bartram'south Garden, 5400 Lindbergh Boulevard. Purchase tickets hither or by calling 215-425-7875.
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