It’s Time To Play and Plant: Lacrosse, Tomatoes, Beans, and Corn

Related links and recipes below

Review of the Lacrosse Movie Crooked Arrows: [Watch 8 min] http://lacrossememoir.blogspot.com/2012/05/review-of-first-feature-film-about.html

Current Farmer’s Almanac: http://www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/

Gardening Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Gardening

Tomato Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=tomato+series

Bean Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=beans

Corn Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=corn+series

Fish Fries As A Collective Community Food Preparation Event Part

Community Brunswick Stew Making Event location unknown

Related Links Below

Fish Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=For+Those+Who+Love+To+Fish+and+Eat+Fish+Part+

The West African Origins of The Southern Fish Fry: http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/07/west-african-origins-of-southern-fish.html

Elizabeth Henry of New Orleans, Queen of the Fish Fry: http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/03/culinary-look-at-women-in-history-cast.html

Tartar Sauce Story and Recipe: http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/05/fried-fish-with-tartar-sauce-is-wining.html

Obesity in North America an Historical Look

Photo from the new HBO's Special The Weight of the Nation, link below     

Related links below

HBO Special, The Weight of the Nation Program Website: http://theweightofthenation.hbo.com/films

Interactive Map on Obesity in North America: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/multimedia/20120507-obesity/

History of the U. S. Obesity Problem: [Watch 25 min 24 sec] http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2012/05/201251072829602369.html

Government Regulations, The Food Industry, and Obesity What’s the Link? http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/09/can-food-industry-governments-work-together-to-fight-obesity.html

The Obesity and Life Expectancy Question: [Watch or Listen 15 min 8 sec] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/jan-june12/obesity_05-08.html

Michelle Obama’s Anti-obesity campaign: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/second-anniversary-of-lets-move.html

New HBO Documentary on Obesity in North America: [Listen 31 min 6 sec] http://www.npr.org/2012/05/14/152667325/pounding-away-at-americas-obesity-epidemic

Obesity and Blacks and Latinos: [Listen 12 min 36 sec] http://www.npr.org/2012/05/14/152673036/is-there-a-better-way-to-talk-about-obesity

Booker T. Washington Through the Lens of Food

Booker T. Washington (Library of Congress Collection)

Related links below

Deborah Davis, Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner: [Listen 16 min 54 sec] http://www.npr.org/2012/05/14/152684575/teddy-roosevelts-shocking-dinner-with-washington

Marcus Garvey: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Marcus+Garvey+


Photos from the Book Washington Papers: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=LOT%2013164&fi=number&op=PHRASE&va=exact&co!=coll&sg=true&st=gallery


My Booker T. Washington Stories with Related Recipes:

http://www.foodasalens.com/2011/08/let-me-help-you-learn-about-black.html

http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/03/easter-series-food-and-african-and_09.html

http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/04/molasses-and-louisiana-purchase.html

Fish Fries and Music in 1940s 1950s Arkansas

1940 Fish fry Louisville, Kentucky (Courtesy of Library of Congress)

related links below

Fish Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=For+Those+Who+Love+To+Fish+and+Eat+Fish+Part+

Elizabeth Henry of New Orleans, Queen of the Fish Fry: http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/03/culinary-look-at-women-in-history-cast.html

Tartar Sauce Story and Recipe: http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/05/fried-fish-with-tartar-sauce-is-wining.html

Harmonica Great Little Walter: [Listen 8 min 7 sec] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106643020

A Good Cook Can Even Make Road Kill Look and Taste Good!

Related Links Below

More Cousin Katie Stories with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Cousin+Katie

Will Allen and Growing Power

Related Links Below

Gardening Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Gardening

Will Allen Key Note Speech and Slide Show at Duke University: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0EMlaOGzmo

Interviews with MacArthur Genesis Award Winner Will Allen: [Listen]: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/SOT22912BC.mp3/view?searchterm=Will%20Allen

Will Allen on Splendid Table: [Listen]  http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/listings/120505/

Growing Power: http://www.growingpower.org/

Will Allen, The Good Food Revolution:  http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/store/?1592407102

Fish Fries and Politics in 1940-1950s Arkansas

Related Links Below

Fish Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=For+Those+Who+Love+To+Fish+and+Eat+Fish+Part+

Series Stumping And Eating And Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Electoral+Politics+and+Food

Elizabeth Henry of New Orleans, Queen of the Fish Fry: http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/03/culinary-look-at-women-in-history-cast.html

Tartar Sauce Story and Recipe: http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/05/fried-fish-with-tartar-sauce-is-wining.html

The West African Origins of The Southern Fish Fry: http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/07/west-african-origins-of-southern-fish.html

The African Heritage Pyramid Diet

African Heritage Diet Pyramid  (image from From Oldways), Related Links and recipes below

The following is a TV interview I did related to the release of the new African Heritage Diet Pyramid. The segment  focused on the importance and the benefits of eating what one's ancestors ate. 


CityLine Segment 2: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/video/30569377/detail.html [Watch 7 min 11 sec] 


African Heritage and Health: http://oldwayspt.org/programs/african-heritage-health


African Heritage Diet Pyramid: http://oldwayspt.org/sites/default/files/images/African_pyramid_flyer.jpg

Adam Clayton Powell on Eating Fish, Fishing and the Hudson River in the 1920s

Related Links Below

Fish Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=For+Those+Who+Love+To+Fish+and+Eat+Fish+Part+

The Best of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Food Stories With Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Adam+Clayton+Powell