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Donna Battle Pierce on Freda DeKnight and 'A Date with a Dish'
At this year's International Association of Culinary Professionals conference, Freda DeKnight's 1948 A Date with a Dish was named a culinary classic winner. Food journalist Donna Battle Pierce has been researching DeKnight for a book about black cooks, restaurants and recipes. Read the "Hungry for History" column she writes for Ebony here .
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readAt this year's International Association of Culinary Professionals conference, Freda DeKnight's 1948 A Date with a Dish was named a culinary classic winner. Food journalist Donna Battle Pierce has been researching DeKnight for a book about black cooks, restaurants and recipes. Read the "Hungry for History" column she writes for Ebony here.
Music: "Jelly Roll Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton
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The full episode
5 of 7Eddie Huang, 'A Date with a Dish,' peaches and pozole- 0:30Eddie Huang on the oppressive whiteness of the food world
- 13:08Will $15-an-hour wages help or hurt Californians in the restaurant biz?
- 21:59Life's a peach
- 29:08Jonathan Gold eats at a Vietnamese izakaya in Little Tokyo
- 38:14Donna Battle Pierce on Freda DeKnight and 'A Date with a Dish'You’re reading this
- 50:18Two Minutes of Pozole
- 52:31Gustavo Arellano eats at Little Arabia Lebanese Bakery in Anaheim