Eclectic types tend to keep their fingers in a lot of pies…and cakes. This blog, of course, being no exception. That’s why Eclectique916.com is helping the “Makes-Me-Wanna SHOUT! Chocolate Layer Cake Baking Challenge“ get the word out that the contest is looking for contestants with a passion for baking, age 18 years and up, and [...]
A few weeks ago a friend sent me a link to an article published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The title was “The Newly Complicated Zora Neale Hurston” authored by two professors Glenda R. Carpio and Werner Sollors of Harvard University. My first thought was what makes Zora complicated? Zora doesn’t start with a [...]
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 [...]
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 Folklore. I asked [...]
National Geographic Travel blog features the first Food and Folklore at Eatonville Restaurant with special guest [Zora Neale] Hurston biographer Valerie Boyd. I guess it’s official. I’m a “Zorahead.”
If Zora were here, she might jump up on the table and dance. Washington Post (November 16, 2009) I’m still trying to figure out the Crow Dance? The first Food and Folklore event at Eatonville Restaurant was a big success with food, company, talk time, and spirit. The maiden launch which coincided with other Zora-themed [...]
Eatonville Restaurant invited me to work with them on a new monthly series of themed dinners called FOOD AND FOLKLORE. It combines three of my favorite things, food, culture, and Zora Neale Hurston. When I was introduced to the concept of crafting menus and a program around something topical, I thought “dinner party.” With that, [...]
When Andy Shallal told me he was opening a restaurant inspired by Zora Neale Hurston, I was more curious as to how a companion to Busboys and Poets (named after Zora’s old poet pal Langston Hughes) would size up. Would there be a stage for folk stories? A wall of hat racks? Blues guitarists. Why [...]
The mediocre have no importance except through appointment. They feel invaded and defeated by the presence of creative folk among them. Zora Neale Hurston As the old schoolers used to say “She’s quite a pistol.” Folklorist, author, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was evasive about her true age for many years, but is estimated to have [...]
