Edge narrates the South’s fitful journey from a hive of racism to a hotbed of American immigration. Beginning with the pivotal role cooks and waiters played in the civil rights movement, noted authority John T. In the South of today, potlikker has taken on new meanings as chefs have reclaimed it. Potlikker is a quintessential Southern dish, and The Potlikker Papers is a people’s history of the modern South, told through its food. After slavery, potlikker sustained the working poor, both black and white. During the antebellum era, slave owners ate the greens from the pot and set aside the leftover potlikker broth for the enslaved, unaware that the broth, not the greens, was nutrient rich. Like great provincial dishes around the world, potlikker is a salvage food. One of Christopher Kimball’s Six Favorite Books About FoodĪ people’s history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades “The one food book you must read this year."
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