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Befriending Angelou, Baldwin, and Morrison in 1970s New York
Food historian Jessica B. Harris has cooked with Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. While working at Essence magazine, she also had a relationship with Sam Floyd, Baldwin’s best friend and neighbor.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readFood historian Jessica B. Harris has cooked with Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. While working at Essence magazine, she also had a relationship with Sam Floyd, Baldwin’s best friend and neighbor. Harris recounts this confluence of acquaintances — the conversations, the food and the records they played — in her memoir, “My Soul Looks Back.”
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Celebrating Black excellence with a culinarian historian, chef, and pitmaster- 0:00Befriending Angelou, Baldwin, and Morrison in 1970s New YorkYou’re reading this
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- 34:29Introducing the world to Nigerian food by way of jollof rice
- 46:07Sharing recipes from the African American food story
The full episode
1 of 5Celebrating Black excellence with a culinarian historian, chef, and pitmaster- 0:00Befriending Angelou, Baldwin, and Morrison in 1970s New YorkYou’re reading this
- 13:17Authorship, memory, aspiration: ‘The Rise’ of Black cooks
- 25:19Mastering barbecue with a doctorate in mechanical engineering
- 34:29Introducing the world to Nigerian food by way of jollof rice
- 46:07Sharing recipes from the African American food story