25 Black Family Reunion Dishes That Disappeared After the 1980s

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25 Black Family Reunion Dishes That Disappeared After the 1980s

A folding table under a magnolia tree in a Georgia backyard, 1978. It sagged in the middle from the weight of everything on it. Potato salad in a yellow bowl. A punch bowl full of something red no one measured and everyone drank. A woman named Cora Lee Hutchins set that table every July for thirty-one years. She cooked for forty people and never once looked at a recipe. Number seven started the argument every year. Number seventeen required a hole in the ground and a man who knew how to tend a fire all night. These were not restaurant meals. These were reunion meals. The kind that held families together across state lines and grudges nobody talked about but everybody remembered. Hit that subscribe button. Let us count them down.

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