Food and New Year’s Resolutions Series: Food Rebels

Quiche, recipes below 

With the New Year here, folks are much more open about taking a critical look at what they eat. The final chapter of my book Hog Hominy and the epilogue does just that http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14638-8/hog-and-hominy/tableOfContents. In the 1960s and 1970s several debates developed over eating soul food. Some African-American intellectuals like Amiri Baraka argued that soul food was a unique part of black culture that should be celebrated. Food writers like Craig Claiborne insisted that soul food was a southern regional food that belonged to southerners. And three groups of African Americans I call “food rebels” argued that soul food is nothing to be celebrated or guarded as our own because it was killing black folk. In the chapter titled Food Rebels, I argue that the Nation of Islam (which Malcolm X once belonged) advocates of natural-food diets, and college-and university-educated African Americans called for eating healthier; that’s why I offer both traditional and vegan recipes on my food and history blog. A recipe below for spinach quiche caught my eye because my brother Marshall (named after Thurgood Marshall) makes a mean quiche. Ok I am inspired to make my first one and here are slew of great recipes below. If you have an heirloom quiche recipe please share it and its history.


Nation of Islam Recipes: http://www.seventhfam.com/scmhwc/ourfamily/vegetarian.htm. 

Caramelized onion quiche: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/caramelized_onion_quiche/

Spinach quiche with onion Jam: http://shesinthekitchen.blogspot.com/2008/08/unexpected-company-spinach-quiche-with.html

Mushroom quiche: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/mushroom_quiche/

Vegan mushroom quiche: http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2009/06/vegan-tofu-quiche-mushrooms-scallions.html

Best vegan quiche ever: http://eatmorevegies.blogspot.com/2010/11/best-vegan-quiche-ever.html