25 African American Block Party Dishes That Disappeared After the 1970s

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25 African American Block Party Dishes That Disappeared After the 1970s

Folding tables stretched along the curb of Edgecombe Avenue in Harlem on a Saturday in 1976. A transistor radio sat on a third-floor windowsill. Stevie Wonder, loud. A half-barrel grill smoked at the curb, cut clean by a torch in somebody's basement. Aluminum trays came down the stoops, balanced on hips. Your grandmother carried one. Number 19 on this list traveled from a house in Mississippi to a kitchen in Cabrini-Green and ended at an elders' table in 1978. Number 14 was poured from a two-gallon jug by a woman who decided who got the first cup. Number 7 on this list cost the host nothing because the numbers runner paid for the soda. These 25 dishes were not catering. They were a neighborhood feeding itself in the open street. Hit subscribe before this list ends. Here are the 25 African American block party dishes that disappeared after the 1970s.

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