25 African American Sunday Dinners No One Makes Anymore!

📖 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. For most of my life the folks who wrote about how we ate down here reached for the word poor like that word settled the matter. Then a Virginia woman named Edna Lewis set the suppers of her girlhood down on paper, the food of a settlement that freed people built and named for themselves, and every page of it argued back. 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: ✓ A baking hen with cornbread dressing and giblet gravy ✓ Beef tongue, simmered slow and sliced thin under onion gravy ✓ Smothered squirrel over grits ✓ Calf liver and onions with rice and gravy ✓ Fried chicken from a bird killed that morning ✓ Okra, tomatoes and shrimp over rice ✓ Delta catfish stew over rice with a boiled egg in the bowl ✓ Oxtails stewed with butter beans over rice 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