Cynthia R. Greenlee
Co-Editor at Echoing Ida
Writer-historian. Beard🏅. Editor. Words on innovation, food, race, history, abortion, the U.S. South. Lead editor, @EchoingIda book. Rep: Mollie Glick.
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1 month ago |
bonappetit.com | Cynthia R. Greenlee
Few US cities have so profitably capitalized on their past and their foodways as Charleston, South Carolina. Founded in the late 1600s near Oyster Point, it was one of colonial America’s metropolises, fattened by slavery and competing with New York City and Philadelphia in population and port city swag.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Cynthia R. Greenlee
Few US cities have so profitably capitalized on their past and their foodways as Charleston, South Carolina. Founded in the late 1600s near Oyster Point, it was one of colonial America’s metropolises, fattened by slavery and competing with New York City and Philadelphia in population and port city swag.
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Dec 23, 2024 |
capitalbnews.org | Cynthia R. Greenlee
Writer and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs makes greens almost every day: chard, kale and — this time of the year — heaping pots of vegan collard greens. Gumbs, author of the recent Audre Lorde biography Survival is a Promise and a thinker who delights in the natural world, finds something meditative about “the process of finding the right green — cooked but not overcooked, not too chewy but not too mushy.
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Dec 23, 2024 |
capitalbnews.org | Cynthia R. Greenlee
Bonnetta Adeeb sighs heavily when she hears the term “cowpea.” Seconds pass while she decides how to respond. Will it be the modulated, kind but firm response of the former teacher of 37 years she is? Or will she show some of her vexation at “that word,” which she avoids as if it leaves an unpalatable aftertaste on her tongue? On this day, Adeeb, the 73-year-old president and founder of the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, chooses playful but pointed rhetorical violence.
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Sep 26, 2024 |
seattletimes.com | Cynthia R. Greenlee
Mallory Murphy Viscardi has made mistake after mistake in the garden. She’s overwatered. She planted a fig tree right next to her home, and its roots snaked under the patio. She sowed superspreading mint directly in the ground, so “every spring, the mint just laughs and laughs as it comes back” while she wrestles to contain its voracious, unwanted creep. She placed her vegetable garden in her dog’s favorite bathroom spot.
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