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Living with Soul Food

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INITIATIVES TABLING<br />

Land Trust, - CitySeed Mobile Truck Common Ground, Neighborhood Housing Services etc.<br />

FEATURED FILM TENT<br />

SOUL FOOD SHUFFLE:<strong>Food</strong> traditions are hard to change, especially when they're passed on<br />

from generation to generation. Baffled by his dad's unwillingness to change his traditional soul<br />

food diet in the face of a health crisis, filmmaker Byron Hurt sets out to learn more about this<br />

rich culinary tradition and its relevance to black cultural identity.<br />

GREENS ON THE GREEN COOKING DEMOS<br />

Master Cooks and Community Cooks feature greens made from different cultures<br />

GLOBAL LOCAL MARKET TOUR AND COOKING DEMOS<br />

Buy local and cook global as you discover the what New Haven and the CT region has to offer<br />

seasonally. We will patron area food businesses and shop at the CitySeed mobile market. With<br />

our bounty we will learn how to use exciting, unusual, and delicious produce, spices, and<br />

cooking techniques. Every Global Local Market Tour and Cooking demo is different relying on<br />

the spontaneity of Mother Nature and interests of the participants to come up <strong>with</strong> our<br />

seasonal menu. In the process we all discover that living in the moment can create the best<br />

food, recipes, and experiences that life has to offer.<br />

SOUL (FUL) RECIPE REDUX - BRINGING GRANDMA'S RECIPES INTO THE 21ST<br />

CENTURY TABLE WITH MASTERCOOKS AND DIETICIAN 
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<strong>Food</strong> is a major part of culture. We will focus on family favorite recipes and how to make them<br />

healthier, whether it's decreasing trans-fats, palm oil, or sugar, increasing fiber or vitamins, or<br />

just trimming off calories. You will be able to work on the recipes from your culture, so you do<br />

not have to give up what is important to you. Learn to preserve your heritage by modifying<br />

ancestral food treasures to make them more wholesome for the whole family. Bring your<br />

favorite family recipe and will create a recipe redux.<br />

ART EXHIBIT<br />

The Jemima Code Art Exhibit<br />

Journalist and culinary historian Toni Tipton-Martin brings to New<br />

Haven green her engaging visual history of African American cooks<br />

in her collection of photographs, The Jemima Code. Featuring<br />

larger-than-life images of black women at work in the kitchens of<br />

slave and sharecropper cabins and shotgun houses throughout the<br />

South, these photographs cement the women’s legacies and<br />

contributions to American cuisine.

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