By Raphael Kadushin 7 April 2021
One big bubbling stew of flavours, American cuisine has never stopped shifting shape and adding accents, with successive waves of immigrants happily swapping and blending their culinary traditions for centuries. There is, though, one crucial legacy missing from the raucous mix, and that s ironically America s own Indigenous cuisine. Native American food, if it s recognised today at all, usually only materialises on the Thanksgiving table, where it is represented by a token squash or a pumpkin centrepiece. America s colonisers simply erased Native culture from the story of the Americas
How did such a rich heritage go missing? Blame it, said Dr Lois Ellen Frank, a Santa Fe-based chef, author and food historian, on a simple and increasingly familiar story. History of course is always told from a specific perspective, she said. And America s colonisers simply erased Native culture from the story of the Americas. If we told the tal
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For sculptor Basil Barrington Watson, the opportunity to create a 12-foot-tall bronze monument to mark the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s long fight for civil rights was more than a simple commission. It also was about family legacy.
His father, painter Barrington Watson, was a visiting professor at Spelman College in 1970 when the school asked that he paint a portrait of King. “When I submitted my proposal and it was accepted, it was like a continuation of my father’s legacy,” says Watson. “I considered it a great honor for my family and our history.” [. . .] The first of seven installations commissioned to honor the legacy and global influence of the civil rights leader, Hope Moving Forward was the winning sculpture proposal of a selection committee made up of representatives from the Mayor’s Office of Cu
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Conversations About Jazz - Guest for 2/25/21 (Hammonds House Digital)
On Thursday, February 25 at 7:30 pm (EST) Hammonds House Digital invites you to join us for
Conversations About Jazz & Other Distractions with host Carl Anthony. Carl s special guest will be jazz vocalist
Vanessa Rubin and they will discuss her career, sample some of her favorite songs, and delve into her latest CD,
The Dream is You: Vanessa Rubin Sings Tadd Dameron. This free virtual program will stream on Hammonds House Museum s Facebook and YouTube channels. For more information about this and upcoming virtual events visit hammondshouse.org.