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30 FORGOTTEN Juneteenth Dishes That Disappeared After the 1970s

A long wooden table sat in the yard of a church in Galveston, Texas, on the morning of June 19th, 1882. The women had been cooking since Wednesday. Brisket in the pit. Tea cakes cooling on flour sack towels. A washtub of red drink on ice. These were the dishes that built Juneteenth before America had a name for it. Number 23 on this list took fourteen hours over hickory coals, and almost no Black family under fifty has ever tasted it. Number 18 was so cheap it fed a whole reunion for a dollar. Number 7 on this list got dropped from cookbooks before the Civil Rights Act was signed. These foods of freedom were made by people told for two centuries they could not celebrate anything. Urban migration and frozen-food convenience erased most of them. Let's count down from thirty.

By https://www.youtube.com/@TheHungryHistorian