25 Forgotten Chicago South Side Suppers Black Families Made in the 1960s

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25 Forgotten Chicago South Side Suppers Black Families Made in the 1960s

On a Sunday evening in 1963, a chipped enamel Dutch oven came off a three-burner hotplate for the last time in a Bronzeville kitchenette at Forty-Seventh Street, Chicago. At the stove was Ezra Stubblefield, a retired Pullman porter from Mound Bayou, Mississippi. That Sunday he fed fourteen neighbors from one pot, because the building had been condemned for the Robert Taylor Homes. He knew every dish on this list — some from the street, some from the neighbors upstairs. Number 18 was the storefront-smokehouse sandwich that fed steelworkers before Lem's ever sold a rib. Number 14 took a smoked turkey neck and four pounds of greens washed one leaf at a time. These 25 suppers were not restaurant food. They were kitchenette food, cooked on hotplates by people who had walked out of Mississippi cotton rows into rented rooms. Hit that subscribe button. Here are the 25 forgotten suppers.

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