Our South: Black Food Through My Lens Lorena Jones Books It is about composing a

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Our South: Black Food Through My Lens Lorena Jones Books It is about composing aAuthor: Ashleigh Shanti Raised in Appalachia, native daughter Ashleigh Shanti, a queer Black woman and acclaimed chef, knows Southern Black cooking means more than we've come to believe. While hot buttered cast iron pan cornbread and crunchy, juicy, lard fried chicken have their roles to play, they are far from the entire story. The key to understanding how Black influence has defined foodways and cultures in the South is to explore its microregions,