A warm welcome from a massive quilt featuring Black icons greets guests that visit a new exhibit at the Africa Centre in Harlem.
“Four hundred quilt squares. One for each year from 1619,” said Dr. Jessica Harris, lead curator, pointing to the hanging quilt at the exhibit’s entrance.
The exhibit, “African/American: Making the Nations Table,” puts a spotlight on the deep history that African and African-American chefs, mixologists and trailblazers offered American culinary.
It all begins with the fields where Harris said the enslaved played a pivotal role in early American agriculture to present day farming.
“Enslaved African Americans cooked for their masters and, in that cooking, created
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