As "Cooking Up a Living in Alabama" reveals, culinary entrepreneurship, whether running barbecue stands, holding neighborhood fish fries, or selling sweets around town, has long enabled African Americans to earn income, stick together as a family, and express creativity. Georgia Gilmore of Montgomery is the quintessential model in Alabama.
In this episode of Gravy, we visit Thomas and Tommie Taylor of T-N-T BBQ in York and Martha Hawkins of Martha’s Place in Montgomery for a modern look at Black entrepreneurship in the Alabama Black Belt. We get a rural and an urban view of how Black entrepreneurs use innovation and hard work to generate real community impact.
This batch of Gravy is reported and produced by Jackie Clay, Executive Director at the Coleman Center for the Arts in rural Sumter County, Alabama; Matt Whitson; an award-winning production audio mixer and video editor at Alabama Public Television in Birmingham, Alabama; and Emily Blejwas, Executive Director of the Alabama Folklife Association and author of The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods (UA Press).
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"Easy," by Ed Madden
Take the Woods Ballistic! Black Belt Nightlife
Migration: Making Meals and Homes in Alabama
Alabama Hunters: Pretty Don't Tree No Coon
New Stewards on Old Homesteads in Alabama
"Pesach in Blacksburg," by Erika Meitner
"Grace," by Jake Adam York
The Mithai Life of North Carolina
The Southern Genius of the Cuban Sandwich
Syrian-ish: Damascus Meets Little Rock at Layla's Restaurant
Ethiopian Atlanta: A Tale of Three Restaurants
Tempeh Brings Indonesia to Houston
"Drill," by Atsuro Riley
"Because Men Do What They Want to Do," by TJ Jarrett
The Holy Trinity: From the Bayou to the Bay
Puerto Rican Pasteles: Unwrapping the Diaspora
Horchata: An Ancient Drink that Crossed the Globe
A Pea for the Past, A Pea for the Future
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