24 Foods Freedmen Actually Ate After Emancipation in the Deep South

📖 Get Mama Odessa's Complete Soul Food Kitchen Method, every recipe in Big Mama's kitchen written down and measured (106 recipes, 332 pages): https://mamaodessa.com My name is Odessa Mae. I was nine years old, sitting on a bench in a schoolhouse with a woodstove in the corner, when a teacher read to us out of Booker T. Washington's book. In this video I walk you through every one of them, in the order I cook them, the way my mama and her mama did it. In this video: ✓ Salt pork ✓ Sweet potatoes ✓ Chitlins ✓ Rice and gravy ✓ Ash cake ✓ Poke sallet ✓ Muscadines and persimmons ✓ Turnips None of this was ever a secret. It just never made it onto a page, because the women who knew it were too busy cooking to write it down. Cook one of these tonight the way somebody showed you. Then tell me in the comments whose kitchen you learned it in, what county, and what it smelled like when it was right. I read every one of them. Stay close to the stove. And remember, the women who fed this country out of one pot knew things we are only just starting to remember. # SoulFood #SouthernCooking #BlackGrandmothers #MississippiDelta #CastIron #CheapMeals #OldWays #HomeCooking #OdessaMae