The Importance of Judgment

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In the evolution of humans, the notion of everyone separating off to their own lands and then paying others to take care of loved ones is just a little bonkers. I really think in the next few decades we'll return to some multi-generational living or raising families with friends. People be because people know what they have to do for themselves and for their families. Let people spice their lives the way they have to and the way they want to. And stop trying to tell people, well, you're a bad person if you don't do it this way or you're a good person if you do doit this way. It's just unnecessary.

What’s the difference between Southern cooking and “soul food?” Is there a correct type of mac and cheese? And whose business is it what you eat? (Hint: no one’s). Culinary historian, scholar of African American life and culture critic Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson is a professor at University of Maryland College Park and department chair in the Department of American Studies. She also authored the books “Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America” and “Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power.” We chat about everything from oral traditions to “soul food” in popular culture, gendered roles in cooking, hyperlocal produce, systemic oppression and why someone would make chicken without seasoning it. On national television.

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Buy Dr. Williams-Torson’s books: Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America and Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power

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