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Cynthia R. Greenlee

How these Black Culinary Entrepreneurs Keep History Alive in South Carolina’s Low Country

In South Carolina, Black culinary entrepreneurs show how to build off history—not be bound by it.

My Grandmother’s Very Specific Meat-Related Rule for Finding Love

Feminism expressed in the medium she knew best: food.

People Used to Be So Scared of Coffee That Bach Wrote a Cantata About It

Coffee was once thought to be a devilish drink unfit for children, women, and men concerned about their virility (seriously!).

The Hermit Cookie: A Reclusive Recipe from America's Archives

The hermit has been a cookie of its times: able to survive without refrigeration and to change with American households and taste.