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Norma Jean Darden
Crescent Dragonwagon
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Terry Ford
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Jessica B. Harris
Cynthia Hizer
Portia James
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Sally Belk King
Sarah Labensky
Edna Lewis
Rudy Lombard
Ronni Lundy
Louis Osteen
Marlene Osteen
Timothy W. Patridge
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Joe Randall
Marie Rudisill
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Interviews by SFA Members and Friends.
Project sponsored by Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q.
I don’t necessarily see food as being a part of a particular tradition. I see it as evolving and ever-changing. I see it as infused with politics and power dynamics...Food doesn’t necessarily make us feel warm and fuzzy.
~Psyche Williams-Forson
Psyche Williams-Forson is the author of Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power. She teaches in the women's Studies and African American Studies departments at the University of Maryland. Born in Virginia, Williams-Forson uses food as a way to explore political, cultural, and social issues.
She has been awarded several fellowships, including a Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Lord Baltimore Research Fellowship. She is the curator of “Still Cookin’ by the Fireside,” an online text and photograph exhibition on the history of African American cookery, commissioned for the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Museum.
SUBJECT: Psyche Williams-Forson, SFA Founder
DATE: March 4, 2005
LOCATION: David Greggory Restaurant - Washington, DC
INTERVIEWER: Karen Cathey, SFA Founder
*TRANSCRIPT: To download a full transcript of this interview in PDF form, please click here.
