The Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo

Story Project - Food as Medicine

After reading The Color of Food by Natasha Bowens and going through the stories archived elsewhere on this site, what I most connected with and wanted to share were some of the different ways that people used food as medicine and just to stay healthy.
 
I was first struck by Vivian Mims at the Greens cook-off when, toward the end of a video of her demonstrating how to cook a batch of greens, she said to not throw the juice away, but to instead use it in a concoction involving hot sauce that can “clear you out better than Smooth Move tea.”
https://youtu.be/BQY41FPlYCM?t=2m21s
 
Vivian was interviewed earlier at the cook-off and talked about buying good food on a budget.  She mentions that methods of preservation such as pickling and canning, along with bulk buying can actually make good food less expensive and more healthy.
https://soundcloud.com/user-967545200/come-and-get-your-soul-food-meet-vivian-a-contestant-at-frogtowns-greens-cook-off#t=5:10
 
Also at the cook-off, Samuel talks about how having Diabetes has effected what he eats, how he has become healthier, and gives some generally good advice for when trying to eat healthy.
https://youtu.be/C6k9lgkkW_c?t=1m40s

 
In The Color of Food, Valerie Segrest mentions the health benefits of berries, including being high in Vitamin C and balancing blood sugar, which is also anti-diabetic.
Valerie goes on to talk about how important tradition is to establishing a working food economy, and how a community’s health can be impacted when their means of producing their own food are limited
 
Here, nutrition educator Christine gives advice on children’s nutrition 
https://soundcloud.com/user-967545200/meet-nutrition-educator-christine-at-frogtowns-greens-cook-off#t=3:05
 
At the AEDA FreshLo Community Meal, Milton Rosa gives an amazing recipe for a healthy desert fruit salad
https://youtu.be/CiYJ-axnxdk?t=1m22s

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