History Happy Hour- Sharing The Black Eyed Peas and Collard Greens

Explore regional African American holiday cooking and religious traditions, with a special emphasis on the museum’s collections and the traditions of the Sandy Spring community. Sample traditional holiday dishes and take home recipes to try.

Special guest speaker Professor Psyche Williams-Forson is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland. Her research and teaching interests include cultural studies, material culture, food, women’s studies, social and cultural history of the U.S. in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Her work on material culture and food has been published in her books, Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World, and the award-winning (American Folklore Society-Women’s Section) Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power. In the latter, she examines the complexities of black women’s legacies using food as a form of cultural work. Her new research explores issues of class, entrepreneurship, and material culture in African American history and culture.

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