Black cooks created the feasts that gave the South its reputation for hospitality --- How Enslaved Chefs Helped Shape American Cuisine | History | Smithsonian

Nothing has a positive spin anymore. Everything is negative and jaundiced. May we remember the recipes used were English, French, Italian, Spanish, Scandanavian...etc...etc...etc... Oh gee I forgit. Marse Prezdint did lub his big ol'plate of hoppin' john and fried chitterlins'!