THOM 8 | Spring / Summer 2017
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TASTEMAKERS<br />
a<br />
taste<br />
for<br />
storytelling<br />
Jovan Sage and Matthew Raiford are on a mission. The goal: to recapture<br />
and reconnect us to the stories that food can tell.<br />
Those of us who grew up with Southern cooking don’t have much trouble<br />
seeing the links between the tastes we remember and the stories we tell<br />
of home, family and region. Stories, after all, begin rooted in a place and<br />
in a set of conditions disciplined by geography and refined by social and<br />
economic life.<br />
Less obviously – and this is where Jovan and Matthew have honed their<br />
storytelling – is the way stories are made more complex and compelling<br />
by infusions from elsewhere. Places and their stories don’t stay put. They<br />
migrate over oceans and mountains and time; so, over time, traditions<br />
born in distant fields and kitchens are stirred into the tastes and memories<br />
of the local, preserving and transforming what is carried and what is found<br />
at the same time.<br />
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