The best, according to Monique Greenwood, reflect the identities of their owners. Hers, the Akwaaba Mansion, is not located in a small, rural town in New England, but rather in a grand old mansion in the heart of Brooklyn. The Savvy Traveler's Marianne McCune went for a visit. Feeling at Home by Marianne McCune Visit this page on Tuesday, December 14 to listen with RealAudio.
Greenwood remembers a New England bed and breakfast whose owner tried a little too hard.
Greenwood says she detests rap. And though she collects black memorabilia, she didn't much appreciate the Mammy and Pappy salt shakers her host picked out for her place setting at breakfast. Now she sets out breakfast for her own guests in a primarily black, brownstone-lined, historic district of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. So the executive editor of Essence Magazine is still a little insecure at the griddle. Cause it's how I've been doing it for two years.