This weeks tasting lab was centered around corn and the many ways in which it is ingested. We watched a clip from Michael Twitty’s Black Corn that illuminated corn’s role is the slave trade and it’s racialized placement in food systems. While listening to Michael Twitty deconstruct the role of slave food in southern cuisine, we sampled many food items made with corn. Cornbread, corn meal, tortilla chips, corn syrup, and, my personal favorite, whiskey.
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