Zia @ZiaMacPine@awoo.space

Funfact Hummingbird Cake is delicious and was invented by Jamaicans

One of those aspects of African American History that I feel often get short shrift is just how much African, Carribean, and African American cooking influenced and informed the basis of American cooking.

Cooking and baking history is a criminally poorly studied area of history in general but I do think this is an area that is poorly discussed and also one where I am not qualified to say much beyond extreme vague comments.

@pendragon Oh, good advice!

@iBolt07 Sorry to hear that, *sends hugs*

@heavyrocksboar *smooch!*

@Gulfie more a poltice

@nighteyes oh yeah I could write a book on that but yes thats still a very real conception in that genre

@nighteyes I assume your father's audio is a mystery novel

@nighteyes a lot of modern readers assume she was also saying he was genderqueer or gay and that might have been her intent (she certainly knew some LGBTQ people) but Dear Aunt Jane was from an educator background and a lot of her letters and books liked to make fun of those divides

@nighteyes that used to be a culturally thing which included different hand writing classes for women and men. Jane Austen made fun of the idea in Emma when one of the male romantic leads is noted to have as penmanship "flowing feminine hand" and all the women find that sexy

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