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| Panamanian Patties, this and other recipes below |
It's Hispanic History Month and we are talking about related
foods. In the 1960s, family dinners were a “big deal” in Brooklyn, recalls
George Priestly, an Afro-Panamanian sociologist who conducted about 60
interviews with Panamanian immigrants to the United States, was born in 1941
and raised in a working-class community in Panama City, Panama. But there were
also African American and Afro-Panamanian women who would cook out of their own
homes, throwing “paid parties” to earn rent money. Priestly says that as
newcomers to New York, Afro-Panamanian emigrants loved paid parties because
they “enlarged [their] contact with other folk” who showed them the ropes. The
concept of going from one house to another eating and partying was “something
we learned from African Americans,” Priestly remembers. He used to attend paid
parties with an Afro-Panamanian friend nicknamed Charlie Boogaloo, who knew all
of the best spots and all of the people that ran them. “When you went with
Charlie, you could go in and eat or drink and then split,” Priestly says. “He
would know about seven different places and we would just go from house to
house paying a couple of dollars, eating, and then go back to our party or stay
there.” Different house parties had different kinds of food. African American
homes usually served up southern food. At an Afro-Panamanian home, there would
be West Indian meat patties and rice and peas, chicken, fried plantains, potato
salad, and Central American tamales.
Panamanian patties recipe:http://spotlight.dancehallkitchen.com/2010/09/22/pastelillos-de-carne-recipe-beef-patties/
Veggie patties recipe: http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/jamaican-veggie-patties-recipe.html
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