Our cooking never lets us down. Like singing, dancing and athletics, cooking is a place where we blacks are allowed, even expected, to shine. Our kitchens are the hearts of our homes. We cook and feed and nurture. We comfort and give and at the end of the day we sit at our table and we comfort ourselves too.
Good food is like good lovin'.
There's no such thing as too much. Good food had taken us through the fire and we've survived. A big woman was a strong woman and Lord knows we needed all the strength we could get. We had to be the strong ones, strong for our families, for our communities, for ourselves. Strong for our men too, because that was one thing they weren't allowed to be.