25 Forgotten African American Wedding Dishes That Disappeared After the 1980s

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25 Forgotten African American Wedding Dishes That Disappeared After the 1980s

Picture the basement of Greater Mount Zion AME in Memphis on a Saturday afternoon in 1971. Two long folding tables run the length of the fellowship hall, both covered in white sheets borrowed from the women's auxiliary. A bride in a borrowed veil stands by a punch bowl that came up from her aunt's china cabinet on Beale Street. The cake on the corner table is three tiers of coconut, frosted white, dusted with shredded coconut shaved that morning. Number 16 on this list was sliced cold from a glass dish and disappeared by four. Number 12 sat on a silver tray that only came out for funerals and weddings. Number 5 on this list was wrapped in a paper napkin and tucked into a purse to take home. While modern receptions now run on catered chafing dishes and rented linens, these tables ran on the hands of women who had been promised the kitchen at fifteen. Let's count down from twenty-five
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