Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine from in gumbo Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 31 min 93 sec ✓ Published: 12-Mar-2020
Description: In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of “Aunt Jemima” and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found on various food products and in advertising. Although these images are sanitized and romanticized in American popular culture, they represent the untold stories of enslaved men and women who had a significant impact on the nation's culinary and hospitality traditions even as they were forced to prepare food for their oppressors. On February 27,
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