SPIKE LEE’S NEXT REQUIEM
After visiting New Orleans for the first time in 2007, I bought my own DVD copy of “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts,” Spike Lee’s HBO documentary about the slow emergency and recovery response to the Katrina tragedy. The documentary was one of the few voices at [...]
Time to step outside into the sunshine though things are cloudy inside. It’s been a heavy week. Today’s Good Friday. I always wandered what made it “good” if it was the day Jesus died. Did his friends, family, and disciples know he would rise again on the 3rd day?
The [...]
The Washington Post’s Peeps Show/Contest has become one of my favorite spring traditions. And this year is no exception in terms of creativity and talent. I never thought Peeps were food in the first place. Always left them in my Easter basket. My favorites were the chocolate anything and the colored eggs. [...]
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Three years ago I had my first Mardi Gras experience — in New Orleans. It was part of my “Church Lady Cakes” project. Johari Roshad and I went to New Orleans with a suit case of pound cakes for her friends. It was not so much the shock [...]
In Freetown, fried chicken was a very special dish.
– Edna Lewis, The Taste of Country Cooking 1976
This week’s Black History month moment appears to be the flap over the menu in NBC’s cafeteria at the Rock in New York City. Questlove, a member of The Roots (Jimmy Fallon’s house band), took a pic of [...]
I’m still baking chocolate chip cookies from the Christmas batch. Great idea to scoop the cookie dough, plop the balls into a plastic bag, then toss them in the freezer. I bake as the craving hits me.
This year I hope I can indulge in the National Museum of the American Indian’s annual [...]
This is one year I wish I was in New Orleans for Mardi Gras. The city’s already pumped about the Saints being in the Super Bowl. And as UndercoverBlackman told me “The city really needs this.”
But I’m working Fat Tuesday on another Mardi Gras celebration at Eatonville Restaurant for Food and [...]
Yesterday, I had the pleasure and opportunity to see White House social secretary Desiree Rogers and deputy social secretary Joe Reinstein at a meeting of NATCAP, the national society of government meeting professionals inside the National Archives building in downtown Washington. I have to give NATCAP credit, so far there has been no press [...]
The black eyed peas and rice are morphed into hoppin’ john, the greens are out of the pot. If you’re going to search “black eyed peas,” be sure to “+ food.” Decide which feeds body and soul.
New Years Day traditions. What do they mean? Black eyed peas and [...]
I spent two days shopping and collecting plastic bags. As of January 1, there will be a 5 cent charge for disposable plastic and paper bags for items purchased at grocery, drug and liquor stores in Washington, DC. I happen to reuse disposable bags, so having an adequate stock pile is necessary. [...]
