Presented by Vivian Howard
Chef, Author, PBS Host
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Vivian Howard moved from New York back to her rural hometown to open a fine-dining restaurant that she hoped would reshape the palates of eastern North Carolina. But an encounter with collard kraut and a trip to “America’s largest pork display” ignited her interest in the traditional foods and culinary techniques unique to the Carolina coastal plain she calls home. Continue reading
Presented by Priya Mani
Live from Denmark
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A talk by Priya Mani on gathered, edible lichens from the Indian subcontinent. It is hardly imaginable that a lichen scraped off tree barks in the sub-Himalayan forests is the decisive and defining ingredient of what we know and imagine as “spicy-Indian.” Continue reading
Presented by B. Marcus L. Cederström
Folklorist
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Why do we eat the things we eat? And how do those things change due to migration? Continue reading
Official White House portrait of former U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy by Mark Shaw, 1961
An interview with
Chef Marcus Samuelsson
Conducted by culinary historian and food writer
Donna Pierce
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Black cooking has always been more than “soul food,” with flavors tracing to the African continent, to the Caribbean, all over the United States, and beyond.
Join us as internationally acclaimed chef Marcus Samuelsson highlights the diverse deliciousness of Black cooking today. Continue reading