West African Origins of Southern Cooking by Jim Surkamp jimsurkamp.com

[jsurkamp]

i appreciate the reason you are angry but this is addressing one thing food. not torture and human trafficking which i address fully in other videos and elsewhere. do you know who martin delany is? and my videos abouthim

[allidock11]

Hmmm, this is one of the more discomfiting videos I've seen in a while. Aside from the factual errors, the Romanticization of slavery is, well, disgusting.

[jsurkamp]

thank you. believe me i won't dispute what gumbo really is with a person from new orleans. i used sources that place gumbo as it was thought of in Virginia around 1830s from the cooking and seminal cookbook of a woman named mary randolph. so it was describing gumbo in the context of mid 19th century virginia cooking. i appreciate the eggplant reference. i'll look into that.

thank you

[kooyawn00]

3. As a New Orleanian, I have to say your concept of "gumbo" is strange and foreign to me.

4. I don't believe eggplants are "native" to W. Africa. They may very well have grown them there but I think they are native to India.

[kooyawn00]

I appreciate what you're doing - showing the connection between African and Southern U.S. cooking, but there are some things that I think you may have gotten wrong:

1. You can't "roll out" corn meal the way you can wheat b/c there is no gluten to give it structure and hold it together.

2. Hominy is not made by grinding corn. It's made, as the Native Americans showed settlers, by soaking corn in a solution of lye.

[jsurkamp]

thank you

[HiddenBlackHistory]

great vid. thank you!

[jsurkamp]

I'm sorry but your comments have nothing to do with the video. There was nothing more to it than where delicious s Southern style cooking originated.

[REISM1]

LOL!!! HOG WASH NOW DO A VIDEO OF WHITE CAVE PEOPLE IN THE CAUCUS MOUNTAINS PORTRAYING THEM ON ALL FOURS EATING RAW FLESH OOPPS, I MEAN RARE, SINCE WE ARE INFORMING THE THE PEOPLE.

[m100p]

@REISM1 Exactly. Need to have the same guy in this video narrating it too.

[misstikaboo]

hmm....

[CHLZLZE]

The secret ingredient ... Love!

[inari00000]

Informative video.. also note that some say the way okra came to be was that the female slaves hid the seeds in their hair and head wraps on their voyage from Africa to the US.