I love this online magazine. It touches on all things African-American and genteel. Yeah, that's a word seen as snobby, but I like to use it. It doesn't have to be perceived as a snobby word though. It's just descriptive of a way of living that does not involve eating out of a Styrofoam container every night in your hole-ridden sweats. I mean eat your Styrofoam-encased goodies but Good Lord! Put 'em on a real plate. Doesn't have to be bone china. K-Mart sells some real nice melamine ones.
https://blacksouthernbelle.com/black-women-and-our-legacy-of-making-others-feel-comfortable-in-our-homes/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=black_women_in_art_african_american_hostesses_from_the_past_to_present_more_click_to_explore&utm_term=2020-04-12
Hospitality has always been a hallmark in the African-American community. Easy, elegant entertaining. The mistresses of those grand, Southern houses could not have had successful soirees if they had not had Black women in their kitchens making magic
Take a look at the article that traces the roots of this tradition from the Southern plantation houses, of course, to its modern manifestations with hospitality mavens like pioneer Freda DeKnight of Ebony's "Date with a Dish" fame, leading up to the late B. Smith, food writer Toni Tipton Martin, chef Carla Hall, food stylist Phyllis Bowie, and more Black women too numerous to mention here. Ladies who grace various style and cooking networks shinig a light on how to throw a soiree with flair.
Burn on, Sistahs!
Freda DeKnight
Toni Tipton Martin writer of "Jubilee:Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking"
Carla Hall
Phyllis Bowie
the late B. Smith
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