Good Food
Green Book guide, food as protest, Zora Neale Hurston
Good Food is taking the day to reflect on the word “independence.” In a 1979 commencement speech at Barnard University, Toni Morrison spoke to the graduating class of women about freedom and power. “You are moving in the direction of freedom.
By Evan Kleiman • • 56m ListenGood Food is taking the day to reflect on the word “independence.” In a 1979 commencement speech at Barnard University, Toni Morrison spoke to the graduating class of women about freedom and power. “You are moving in the direction of freedom. The function of freedom is to free someone else,'' she told them. Fannie Lou Hamer and Audre Lorde famously made this same point: “I am not free until you are free.”
Food is a lens. This week Good Food looks through that lens and poses the question, “Who is free?” To write their own story. To record their own recipes. To dine where they want to. To own land. To be crowned the best restaurant in America.
In this episode
5 stories‘The Jemima Code’ reveals little-known culinary legacies of Black men and women
One of the nation's most distinctive and varied regional cuisines comes from the American South.
Read the story13 min‘The Green Book’ mapped safe spaces for Black travelers. This documentarian visited 5,000 of them
“ The Negro Motorist Green Book ” was considered the "Bible of Black Travel," a guide that clued African Americans into safe roadside stops during Jim Crow.
Read the story15 minThe food of famed folklorist Zora Neale Hurston
Eatonville was the first all-Black city to be incorporated into the state of Florida. It was where famed writer, folklorist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was raised in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Read the story8 minChallenging the status quo of America’s agrarian identity
Ninety-five percent of America’s farmers are white. Natasha Bowens left a job as a public health advocate in Washington, D.C. and headed to the farm to explore racial inequity within agriculture.
Read the story9 minProtesting through food and cooking
Tunde Wey is a Nigerian chef with an unusual traveling dinner series called “Blackness in America.” The food Wey serves is the Nigerian fare he left behind after moving to the United States at age 16.
Read the story11 min
