History of African-American Food

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Food anthropologist Jessica Harris discusses the history of African-American food -- from slavery, sharecropping, chuck wagon chefs into the West and Buffalo Soldiers, to sodbusters, the Northern Migration and soul food. Harris is the co-founder of the Southern Foodways Alliance and author of numerous books on African-American food, including her latest, Martha's Vineyard Table.