25 Gullah Geechee Dishes That Disappeared After the 1980s

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25 Gullah Geechee Dishes That Disappeared After the 1980s!

In 1971, on a wooden dock along a tidal creek on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, a Gullah woman named Miss Evelina threw a cast net in a perfect circle at low tide. She pulled in enough shrimp for the evening rice pot. She had done this every afternoon for forty years. By 1989, a resort developer owned that creek. The dock was gone. The net was in a closet. And 25 dishes that had survived the Middle Passage, survived two hundred years on the Sea Islands, and survived Jim Crow, could not survive a golf course. Number 7 connected South Carolina directly to Sierra Leone. Number 18 was a cut of meat that nobody else wanted. Number 11 fed whole communities from a single cast net haul. Hit that subscribe button. Let us count down 25 Gullah Geechee dishes that disappeared after the 1980s.
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