CoffeeColoredConvos

The last episode this season is a very special one! 

The I.E. stand for interview episode round here. For our first interview episode, Corrine has a great convo with Mrs. and Chef Miller. Her cousister and brousin ( cousins who are more like siblings). They play CUT IT, try the infamous cream of wheat ice cream, have lunch, and talk about all sorts of things but ultimately end with what it is like to have a chef for a partner in life. 

CUT IT ingredients 

Appetizer Round

Snickle, chicken thighs, green onions, and a PB&J sandwich

Entree Round

Cheetos, sour cream, pink lady apples, and a pork chop

Dessert Round

Chocolate Pudding, chipotle banana chips, cool ranch Doritos, and peanut butter caramel

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Get the money, Dolla Dolla bills y'all! Coming to an online web platform soon. Dr. Williams and I talk through the logistics of a course about the foods of the  African diaspora. Taking up this mantle to teach is both exciting and daunting, I hope I do the culture and cuisine as proud as I can. Shout out to Oldways out of Boston as well for doing a lot of the heritage diet work since the 90's and highlighting African food culture in 2015. A link for their website, volunteer opportunities, and curriculum on various diets of the world is below.

Bless up and Stay Sharp!

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Come and let's play together in the bright sunny weather!  Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi does a fantastic job chronicling the foodways of all the immigrant cultures that make America great. The episode we watched talks about Gullah cuisine and culture and it was a beautiful thing. Opening the episode is Michael Twitty who is best selling author and a culinary historian of the food of the enslaved. Links below talk more about Gullah history and the theme song from the cartoon.

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Juneteeth was always lit, but this year it is even more important that we celebrate. We need to keep being joyful because that is a part of healing too.  This episode might be a little chopped n' screwed but I had a lot going on today, fam please forgive me( hahaha).  I hope you enjoy it anyway, cause this friday is special and I had to get an episode out on this day of celebration. I made a red velvet cake this week too! Historically, to my knowledge, was red using beets originally to represent the bloodshed of the enslaved, then capitalism used the tradition to sell food dye. A pic of my plated cake will but up soon. Google some juneteeth celebrations near you, or make something  special it doesn't have to be extra but just from the heart. 

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So this episode is the beginning of our Hip Hop Homestead. Shout out to Leah Penniman who dropped the knowledge via one of her Ask a Sista Farmer Fridays ( on Facebook-we highly recommend as a great resource for taking back and honoring land) that the difference between a homestead and a farm, is the scale and a matter of economics. A homestead produces food for the occupants of the residents, a farm produces food as a business entity, of selling food for the general public. So thus the idea for the hip hop homestead began. Just as they do on soul fire farm, they listen to music and reconnect with the land. We do the same, music feeds the soul so be careful about your diet. This episode details the planning and research that is needed to try and plant according to companion planting principles and the natural biodiversity of the plot of land that our ancestors worked hard to acquire and protect.  We are doing the best we can, learning as we grow, -when we know better we do better, but everyone starts somewhere and this is the start of ours. Planting playlists coming soon! 

Bless up and Stay Sharp!

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We got caught! But found something pretty cool to fix up and use later on. I'll give you a hint it has to deal with the hand you are dealt. Material culture is all around us and is important too. Cast Iron is all forms, represent to me blackness, forged in fire, and can be useful in so many ways than one realizes. If you got it (cast iron) its so special I know it can be scary, all rusty and crusty- but see beyond that to the beauty before time took advantage. They say iron sharpens iron after all, right. Well you gotta be iron to fix iron, so see the links below for tips. The pinterest link is for a visiual on what our IRON MADIEN looks like. Material culture is what we use, culture is what makes us who we are. Culture is beatiful and can at times be compartmentalized, ya know like good prep should be. The way all the cultures you identify with combine and show up for you is what makes you, YOU! And you are amazing, unless you are prejudice (people)  or racist(systems)- aint nobody got time for that and something will be said or done about that! 

Bless Up and Stay Sharp!

-C

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Starring role in this episode, by the infamous soon, to hopefully be famous, more famous than famous Amos, hahaha- Coffee Colored Confections-Brown Butter Sugar/Whatever You like cookies. For sale now on our website. The OG recipe is on the top of the Quaker Oats box, but why make them when we can upgrade them, or level them up for ya! Many laughs and realizations were had during the screening of this show. It is well made and depicts one family's experience of being black with money in the US of A. Media Matters, so stay blessed and stay sharp!  It's funny how the reviews from rotten tomatoes, for this show, reflect created Kenya Barris's actual reality as a content creator of coffee color.  Just know we are Barris fans in this household. Keep in mind this show and the links have some 'colorful' language. Myself-Corrine being a fan of Modern Family, BlackAF feels like the modern black family that we need to see. Dry humor is required to enjoy as well. Say what you will about Mr. Hart, he has a great POV on the show as a rich young black father in Hollywood see the last link below.

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BUZZZZ BUZZZ, It is what it always was. We are talking about 'beeing' eusocial, parenting, teaching and so much more that apiaries offer us. Did you know that you can have apiaries in the SIMS now? What a world, we live in. 

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Country Sausage Probation, Sunflowers all around- helping out the pollinators on the hip hop homestead. All of this and more as the cooking challenge the good doctor posed gets a good old fashioned plot twist, cue the maniacal laughter.

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This is a set up. Corrine bakes cookies and teaches her son how to woah. The today show plays in the background profiling small businesses and Corrine reflects on her entrepreneurial childhood. We find out why they call baby boys, bouncing. But we know for a fact that cooking is not a game to Chef-Kendall.

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The restaurant industry will get through this crisis.  We will come thru! Our favorite part about what resilient restaurants (and some we know)  are doing is being creative.  Innovation within the context of problem-solving and pivoting!  Some points to be said, however once the restaurant industry is overhauled hopefully marginalized groups can finally claim their just desserts. Our show notes link is an article from the Washington Post about how iconic black restaurant  Ben's Chili bowl is handling the COVID outbreak, for further reading.

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My great- great grandmother was a winemaker long before I thought it was cool. We talk about going back to the old ways, have a little party like seriously a little party. Snack on ramen and talk about naan bread.  I make food puns and sticky toffee pudding for Chef's ( Kendall) birthday.

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Pecany or Uncanny? It it up to you to decide for yourself. This captured convo Chef is battling cabin fever, trying to stay sharp. We talk about what is for dinner and COVID is still coming.

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Hey, all you cool cats and kittens, this week's quickfire is exotic, freaky and includes a woman about a horse.

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I feel like nowadays I just walk around with voice memos open, has me feeling like a king... the tiger king. My family hold on tight to their teacups and have a really good laugh.  We have way too much energy to be still in the house, so we use to plan our garden. As far as gardening goes we are learning by doing, listening to ancestors and a good ol' google search on companion planting. Got any tips or advice feel free to help a family out! I always thought that permaculture was how the garden of Eden would've been planted. 

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This week we respond to a shade room post about someone having only four spices in their entire home. Where are the rest beloved? 

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This collection of convos include a KFC taste test and an interesting Popeyes uniform review.  Various members of the coffee-colored fam, are featured in this episode including cousins, a baby named Sage, and more.  

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Ina Garten is lit!! She is goals!

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