african american history – Page 2

recipes

“Cornbread Harriet Tubman”
ByKara February 11, 2017March 6, 2026

This recipe comes from “The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro,” a fascinating cookbook compiled in 1958 by the National Council of Negro Women. The book is organized as a calendar of sorts, with recipes assigned to specific dates. Several recipes in this cookbook have particular Maryland connections, including a pie dedicated to Benjamin Banneker…

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interviews

Interview: Mark Warner, “Eating in the Side Room”
ByKara March 30, 2016July 15, 2020

I fully admit to being most titillated by weird tales of spite houses and diarrhea from green corn, but in between those cheap thrills I do attempt to do some actual learning. Recently at the Eddie and Sylvia Brown African American Collection at the Pratt Library I came across a book called “Eating in the…

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