This cookie picture is from Back In The Day Bakery. Last weekend, there was a bake sale, Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice Bake Sale, which raised money for Color of Change.
What’s your summer cocktail? I have been making drinks at home with Simply Watermelon fresh strawberries, lemon juice and tequila. As I scroll through Instagram, I see that Aperol Spritz are trending. An Aperol Spritz is a light cocktail with Aperol (an Italian liqueur), prosecco, and soda water.
This Rocket Scientist Is Tracing Black Ingenuity Through Barbecue
Howard Conyers, Ph.D. is researching the science of barbecue.
Cookbooks, Not Restaurants, Are Giving Black Foodways An Identity
Therese Nelson writes about how more Black chefs need to share their personal culinary stories in a cookbook. BTW, I have added more books to my Bookshop books on food.
Include These Black Food Bloggers To Your Instagram Feed
I thought I was already following many of these food people, but there are some I had to add.
Podcast Episode and Recommendation
My Juneteenth podcast episode is up. Please listen. I highly recommend listening to NPR’s Fresh Air where Terry Gross talks to singer Rhiannon Giddens. Rhiannon Giddens talks a lot about banjos which is an African instrument.