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NPR: Here's what makes a great Kwanzaa feast
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NPR: Here's what makes a great Kwanzaa feast
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Tonya Hopkins and Kenya Parham have some delicious suggestions. They are the creators of a new online miniseries for the Food Network called "The Kwanzaa Menu." And you two know one another.

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APHROCHIC MAGAZINE: Food as a Narrative for Liberation An Interview with Tonya Hopkins, “The Food Griot”
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APHROCHIC MAGAZINE: Food as a Narrative for Liberation An Interview with Tonya Hopkins, “The Food Griot”
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It's a truth we rarely reflect on, and even more rarely appreciate - but we should. Think about it. How much of our identities, our attachment to our own cultures and our connection with others come through the things we like to eat? Then there's the question of power, which in terms of food covers everything from who gets to eat, to which foods are considered cuisine. And America's erasure of Black people from its food history, like its history of home, is no small factor in upholding our exclusion from its fundamental sense of self. And of course. there's the money…

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SFA’s Gravy Podcast: "America’s Lost Peanut and the Price of Bringing it Back" by Otis Gray; Featuring Tonya Hopkins aka "The Food Griot"& Other Experts :) ...
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SFA’s Gravy Podcast: "America’s Lost Peanut and the Price of Bringing it Back" by Otis Gray; Featuring Tonya Hopkins aka "The Food Griot"& Other Experts :) ...
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SFA’s Gravy podcast episode, ““America’s Lost Peanut and the Price of Bringing it Back,””, produced by Otis Gray delves into the revival of the Carolina African Runner Peanut—an audio story inspired by a particular part of chapter 8 of Sarah’s book,Endangered Eating— i.e., Sarah’s conversation with Tonya Hopkins, aka “The Food Griot”. In the end of that chapter Tonya talks with Sarah and makes a powerful point about the complicated intersections of power, privilege and preservation…and served as a primary spark for the creation of this Gravy Podcast episode.

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