25 African American Holiday Dishes That Disappeared After the 1970s

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25 African American Holiday Dishes That Disappeared After the 1970s

Between 1970 and 1985, the average number of homemade dishes on a Black holiday table dropped from twenty-eight to fourteen, according to USDA household food consumption surveys conducted across rural and urban kitchens. That is half a holiday table. Gone in fifteen years. Number 19 on this list took two days to prepare and vanished when frozen pies arrived. Number 12 once fed forty cousins from a single iron pot at every reunion in Georgia. Number three was so common in Lowcountry homes that the cook measured rice by the bushel, not the cup. These 25 dishes were not fancy. They were the proof a holiday had been honored. Hit subscribe before this list ends, and stay with us as we walk through the Christmas, New Year, Easter, and Juneteenth tables that disappeared

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