25 Forgotten Meals Black Families ACTUALLY Ate in the Deep South

25 Forgotten Meals Black Families ACTUALLY Ate in the Deep South

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25 Forgotten Meals Black Families ACTUALLY Ate in the Deep South

A cast-iron skillet sat on a wood-burning stove in rural Mississippi, 1958. It belonged to a woman named Earline who fed eleven people from that one pan six nights a week. She didn't own a cookbook. Everything she knew came from her mother, who learned it from her mother, who learned it in a kitchen that wasn't her own. Number 12 on this list cost less than a dime. Number 7 used an ingredient most people today would throw away. Number 19 was eaten three times a day by sharecropper families across Alabama for generations. These 25 meals were built to keep families alive when the land gave you almost nothing and you still had to feed your children. Hit that subscribe button. Let us count down the 25 forgotten meals Black families actually ate in the Deep South.



By https://www.youtube.com/@TheHungryHistorian