I am so glad that I found your work! I am really looking forward to reading more. I’m a small scale farmer on the west coast of Canada and we have been growing some of these crops because of their high nutrition and drought tolerance.
We are zone 8, with a fairly long season but more drought in recent years. We are experimenting with dry farming and trialing some new varieties to support food security in our community.
I'm looking forward to learn from you! I have a tree in my garden that grows like crazy and is dead easy to propagate and I'm searching recipes for: bitter leaf or Veronia amygdalina. All the recipes I found need complicated ingredients, like stockfish or shrimp powder. I would love if you could include this plant!
Teff is actually available in the Netherlands. The grandfather of a classmate was doing research into growing it in the Netherlands and i think some Eastern European countries. And i know some Olympic ice skaters have been incorporating it in their diets due to its nutritional characteristics.
Thank you so much for this series! I've been self studying Black American foodways and the history of enslavement that shaped our current American food culture (spoiler alert: it's all Black). Learning from other members of the diaspora and a neighbor to the North is a pleasure!
What a fun idea for a series! I just read your post on fonio (and found a shop nearby that sells it!); I'm looking forward to seeing more like that. The encyclopedia set your posts are based on looks absolutely fascinating. I hope our country's current leadership rethinks ending support for USAID. The loss of the medical support + humanitarian relief they provide is an disaster, but it will be sad to see projects like these books potentially lost, too.
USAid was a destabilizing force in the non white world. It's loss will mean less interference in local governments and fake pro democracy groups.paid to disrupt local governments. Democracy is not the preferred government around the world. It's colonial system imposed on a kingship social order.
This book was available on the usaid.gov website until Trump destroyed the agency a couple of weeks ago, which makes your project more important than ever
We just did an episode on this very topic last month! A fascinating history that’s not share nearly enough. An amazing contribution by enslaved Africans to the American agriculture landscape.
I love what your doing. I need this as and older African man here in America who is vegan. I want to learn more about African cooking of vegetables and fruits and grains. Already into millets,and African "rice," love ground nut vegetable soup.
Looking forward to seeing what gets covered and what I will learn
Really looking forward to this! Great idea for a series
I’m looking forward to learning from you. This is really exciting work!
There is so much to learn here.
Yes! I love learning about real food, that not grown for mass profit. Such important work, thank you for this precious gift.
I’m so excited to read more!
I love the cooking without ingredients from the Americas (e.g., tomatoes, yuca/cassava) whose inclusion are the result of our enslavement.
I am so glad that I found your work! I am really looking forward to reading more. I’m a small scale farmer on the west coast of Canada and we have been growing some of these crops because of their high nutrition and drought tolerance.
that is amazing! What growing zone are you in?
We are zone 8, with a fairly long season but more drought in recent years. We are experimenting with dry farming and trialing some new varieties to support food security in our community.
I'm looking forward to learn from you! I have a tree in my garden that grows like crazy and is dead easy to propagate and I'm searching recipes for: bitter leaf or Veronia amygdalina. All the recipes I found need complicated ingredients, like stockfish or shrimp powder. I would love if you could include this plant!
Teff is actually available in the Netherlands. The grandfather of a classmate was doing research into growing it in the Netherlands and i think some Eastern European countries. And i know some Olympic ice skaters have been incorporating it in their diets due to its nutritional characteristics.
Thank you so much for this series! I've been self studying Black American foodways and the history of enslavement that shaped our current American food culture (spoiler alert: it's all Black). Learning from other members of the diaspora and a neighbor to the North is a pleasure!
that's amazing to hear!
The connections are always so palpable, especially with rice
What a fun idea for a series! I just read your post on fonio (and found a shop nearby that sells it!); I'm looking forward to seeing more like that. The encyclopedia set your posts are based on looks absolutely fascinating. I hope our country's current leadership rethinks ending support for USAID. The loss of the medical support + humanitarian relief they provide is an disaster, but it will be sad to see projects like these books potentially lost, too.
USAid was a destabilizing force in the non white world. It's loss will mean less interference in local governments and fake pro democracy groups.paid to disrupt local governments. Democracy is not the preferred government around the world. It's colonial system imposed on a kingship social order.
This book was available on the usaid.gov website until Trump destroyed the agency a couple of weeks ago, which makes your project more important than ever
We just did an episode on this very topic last month! A fascinating history that’s not share nearly enough. An amazing contribution by enslaved Africans to the American agriculture landscape.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-fresh-produce/id1765143144?i=1000688760959
This is so important!
I love what your doing. I need this as and older African man here in America who is vegan. I want to learn more about African cooking of vegetables and fruits and grains. Already into millets,and African "rice," love ground nut vegetable soup.