Michael Twitty has this up on some of the food the slaves use to prepare.  When I think of the poor folk now, really, it’s not that far removed.  One can only do so much with food stamps, and as I’ve posted before, if you’re on a Celiac diet or try to eat organic/non-processed food, it is pretty damn difficult to stay in budget.

From my experience, I do know that all the stuff that they tell you is bad (which is wrong, btw), such as bacon, fatty pieces of meat, and the like, sure do make the cheap meat and vegetables taste oh-so-much better. There were times when I walked through the building in FW,  the aromas coming from apartments was soo good, I thought there should be some rule that if you make something that smells that good, you should have to share it with the rest of the building.  Heh.

I have to hand it to African American folk–there were some pretty darn good cooks in my building.  They used what little they had to make tasty meals.

And I learned something today–that there wasn’t segregation with the whites on plantations.  That is heartwarming to hear.  Good for them for not lumping all whites together and rejecting those that came around. Poor folk is poor folk, no matter.  It’s too bad that after the commonality of being poor is no longer there, that folks no longer feel that community togetherness.  Why?