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s/o racist food
I never understood this myself. Maybe it's because my family is originally from the deep South, but I never understood why anyone would consider southern foods "black" foods. Never made sense.
Anywho... the head chef, who approves all menus, is an African-American (I knew this before, I just wanted to get your opinions w/o that tidbit of info).
Anywho... the head chef, who approves all menus, is an African-American (I knew this before, I just wanted to get your opinions w/o that tidbit of info).
Re: s/o racist food
Who do you think were the chefs in the south back in the day?
Well... no one seems to have a problem with calling places like Oriental Wok and the like 'Chinese food.' Same with El Rio Grande, as Mexican food. Or Maggiano's as Italian food. We refer to them loosely by their cultural association.
However, with that said, fried chicken, to me, is more southern or soul food. If you want to get technical about it, I would call things you would find in African traditional cultural 'black food.' I wouldn't call mashed potatoes, fried okra, fried chicken, etc... black food. At all. Because it isn't - it's southern food.
If they wanted to do food to honor black history month, the chef might have done better to consider African fare -
http://www.africaguide.com/cooking.htm
(sorry.. I can't make it a clicky in my Safari browser
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The bonus in that being people who normally may not get to taste what you'd eat in African cultures can get a taste of it. I say this because when my sister was homeschooled, one of their units was on African Americans and at the end of it they put on an African feast and we tried all sorts of dishes. Man that food was delicious - especially the peanut stuff!
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