All in Antebellum South
On this week's edition of the best food podcast we turn to the subject of farming. As this country transitioned from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) Radical Republicans such as Thaddeus Stevens championed the notion of giving Freedmen (the name coined for the former enslaved population in the US South) 40 acres of land and a mule . . .
Food historian Fred Opie Talks with a historical interpreter at colonial Williamsburg, Virginia about the site's garden, gardeners, and African survivals. Fred Opie AKA Frederick Douglass Opie is a Professor of History and Foodways at Babson College. Check out his blogs and podcasts at http://www.fredopie.com/
Big Quarterly—a combination August African-American religious revival/food festival held in the city of Wilmington Delaware. The stories are based on records found in the Library of Congress in Washington DC. During the antebellum period Big Quarterly had been a ...
A 1940 edition of The Atlanta Constitution (called The Atlanta Journal-Constitution now) says that “originally” barbecuing “meant roasting or broiling a whole animal or a very large part of it all in one piece.”
