Season to Taste

Our most treasured Fall gatherings include tables set with family and friends, sharing meals showcasing the Autumn vegetable harvest.

Oct 27, 2024

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Man is but a moving stream
Between a memory and a dream.
—Ariel Williams Holloway

This week we’re sharing Autumn “weekly reader” harvest highlights from Skillet Diaries’ Library shelves.

The African American Heritage Cookbook by Carolyn Quick Tillery (Kensington Publishing Corp., 1996, 2024).

Carolyn Quick Tillery includes historic reflections, photographs and recipes from Tuskegee Institute, founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington (1856-1915). The school is now officially Tuskegee University.
This historic cookbook includes some recipes attributed to Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943). The scientist’s recipes are designated with an asterisk. And these instructions for roast potato, in paragraph format, demonstrate Carver’s impressive simplicity and meticulous accuracy.
DR. CARVER'S BAKED SWEET POTATOES*
Scrub with a brush and rinse with water until thoroughly clean. Bake like white potatoes, without breaking the skin. When done break the skin in one place in the form of a cross,…

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