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| Pickled Beets, recipe below |
There are two important decades in U. S. history in which southern-born African Americans migrated to the North in large numbers. Most migrated in search of better paying jobs and housing. Others started fleeing to escape oppressive race relations and Jim Crow policies that begun after the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Yet southern migrants did not abandon their rural traditions such as gardening when they went North cities like Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Newark, and New York. Subsistence gardening remained a central part of their foodways when space and time permitted. Some gardens in allies, on roof tops, in make shift garden beds in front or behind their dwellings, and in abandon lots when possible. Eating fresh beets and canning an particular large yield of them allowed one's family to consume healthy vegetables throughout the year
Pickled Beet Recipe: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/pickled_beets/
Gardening Series with Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Gardening
Canning Stories and Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Canning
Great Migration and Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Great+Migration
Related Link: Author interview, Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129827444
Eating From Your Garden
Series with Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Eating+From+Your+Garden+This+Fall
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