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The Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo

Laverne Henderson Storymobile interview by Megan and Valentine

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2. Megan Storymobile interview of Jocelyn Collins for Greens Cookoff part 2
4. Valentine & Zoe at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff IMG 0913
5. Megan Phinney interviews Mary Thompson & Delinia Parrish for Alliance Greens Cookoff (2 of 4)
6. Megan Storymobile interview of Mary Thompson and Delinia Parris for Greens Cookoff (4 of 4)
7. Emanuel interviewed again at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff IMG 0238
8. Jessica interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff
10. Meet theatre director, Jamil Jude, at Rondo's greens cook-off. On December 3rd. 2016, Storymobile pedaled on over to St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood. Inside Pilgrim Church community members gathered together for a greens cook-off. Contestants cooked 13 different kinds of greens to be judged. Attendees sampled each one and awarded one the winner!The Urban Farm and Garden Alliance in partnership with The Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo hosted the cook-off and community meal. Entertainment was provided by Jesse's Heart and Soul Drumming Group, Elite Family dance group, The History Theatre and Spoken Word artist Truth Maze.Storymobile was there to find out: who's eating what? Storymobile Podcast by Katey DeCelle
11. Truth Maze and Sister Rochelle at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff
12. Megan Storymobile interview of Jocelyn Collins for Greens Cookoff at CSP (part 1)
13. Heart and Soul Drum Academy Introduction Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff
14. William Harris (Truth Maze) interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff IMG 0237
15. WOW introduces the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff, and announces Emily's childcare
16. Mark and Adrienne interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff
18. Megan Storymobile interview of Mary Thompson and Delinia Parris for Greens Cookoff (4 of 4)
19. Samuel interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff IMG 0222
20. Mhonpaj Lee interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff
21. Jesse interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff IMG 0221
23. Megan Storymobile interview of Carolyn Brown at CSP
24. Lebo Moore interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff IMG 0220
25. Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff sights and sounds
26. Vivian Mims follow up on greens
27. Chimera interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff
28. Tim Paige interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff IMG 0194
29. Laverne Henderson Storymobile interview by Megan and Valentine
30. Maya interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff IMG 0243
32. Caroline interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff
33. Emanuel interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff
34. KP interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff
35. Come and get your soul food! Meet Vivian Mims, a contestant at Rondo's greens cook-off On December 3rd. 2016, Storymobile pedaled on over to St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood. Inside Pilgrim Church community members gathered together for a greens cook-off. Contestants cooked 13 different kinds of greens to be judged. Attendees sampled each one and awarded one the winner!the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance in partnership with The Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo hosted the cook-off and community meal. Entertainment was provided by Jesses's Heart and Soul Drumming Group, Elite Family dance group, The History Theatre and Spoken Word artist Truth Maze.Storymobile was there to find out: who's eating what? Storymobile Podcast by Katey DeCelle
36. Shawn interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff IMG 0915
37. Announcements and setup at Urban Farm and Garden Alliance Greens Cookoff 2016
38. Michael Stratten interviewed at the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance 2016 Greens Cookoff
39. Meet botanist and artist Sarah Nassif at Rondo's greens cook-off. On December 3rd. 2016, Storymobile pedaled on over to St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood. Inside Pilgrim Church community members gathered together for a greens cook-off. Contestants cooked 13 different kinds of greens to be judged. Attendees sampled each one and awarded one the winner!the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance in partnership with The Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo hosted the cook-off and community meal. Entertainment was provided by Jesse's Heart and Soul Drumming Group, Elite Family dance group, The History Theatre and Spoken Word artist Truth Maze.Storymobile was there to find out: who's eating what? Storymobile Podcast by Katey DeCelle
40. Cheers to Switchel! Meet Diane at Rondo's greens cook-off. On December 3rd, 2016, Storymobile pedaled on over to St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood. Inside Pilgrim Church community members gathered together for a greens cook-off. Contestants cooked 13 different kinds of greens to be judged. Attendees sampled each one and awarded one the winner! The Urban Farm and Garden Alliance in partnership with The Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo hosted the cook-off and community meal. Entertainment was provided by Jesse's Heart and Soul Drumming Group, Elite Family dance group, The History Theatre and Spoken Word artist Truth Maze. Storymobile was there to find out: who's eating what? Storymobile Podcast by Katey DeCelle
41. Meet Deborah and Imani at Rondo's greens cook-off. On December 3rd. 2016, Storymobile pedaled on over to St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood. Inside Pilgrim Church community members gathered together for a greens cook-off. Contestants cooked 13 different kinds of greens to be judged. Attendees sampled each one and awarded one the winner! The Urban Farm and Garden Alliance in partnership with The Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo hosted the cook-off and community meal. Entertainment was provided by Jesse's Heart and Soul Drumming Group, Elite Family dance group, The History Theatre and Spoken Word artist Truth Maze. Storymobile was there to find outL who's eating what? Storymobile Podcast by Katey DeCelle
42. Meet Sunflower man, Jim, at Rondo's greens cook-off. On December 3rd. 2016, Storymobile pedaled on over to St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood. Inside Pilgrim Church community members gathered together for a greens cook-off. Contestants cooked 13 different kinds of greens to be judged. Attendees sampled each one and awarded one the winner! The Urban Farm and Garden Alliance in partnership with The Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo hosted the cook-off and community meal. Entertainment was provided by Jesses's Heart and Soul Drumming Group, Elite Family dance group, The History Theatre and Spoken Word artist Truth Maze. Storymobile was there to find out: who's eating what? Storymobile Podcast by Katey DeCelle
43. Where does your food come from? Meet Lashonda and Anthony at the Rondo greens cook-off. On December 3rd. 2016, Storymobile pedaled on over to St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood. Inside Pilgrim Church community members gathered together for a greens cook-off. Contestants cooked 13 different kinds of greens to be judged. Attendees sampled each one and awarded one the winner! The Urban Farm and Garden Alliance in partnership with The Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo hosted the cook-off and community meal. Entertainment was provided by Jesse's Heart and Soul Drumming Group, Elite Family dance group, The History Theatre and Spoken Word artist Truth Maze. Storymobile Podcast by Katey DeCelle
44. Meet nutrition educator Christine at Rondo's greens cook-off. On December 3rd. 2016, Storymobile pedaled on over to St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood. Inside Pilgrim Church community members gathered together for a greens cook-off. Contestants cooked 13 different kinds of greens to be judged. Attendees sampled each one and awarded one the winner! The Urban Farm and Garden Alliance in partnership with The Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo hosted the cook-off and community meal. Entertainment was provided by Jesse's Heart and Soul Drumming Group, Elite Family dance group, The History Theatre and Spoken Word artist Truth Maze. Storymobile was there to find out: who's eating what? Storymobile Podcast by Katey DeCelle
45. Vivian Mims video of making her award winning collard greens with turkey recipe interviewed by Megan Phinney

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Pakou Yang's collection of recipes and family traditions passed down When I was reading the book, The Color of Food by Natasha Bowens, the portraits that led to me choosing the topic of recipes and family traditions being passed down was Cherokee Seed Bank. In "Cherokee Seed Bank", the person in the portrait, Kevin, talks about how the Cherokee culture is being kept by going back to their roots and getting their cultural foods from planting. In Education for Socially Engaged Art by Pablo Helguera, the topic of audience came up and for my topic of recipes and family traditions passed down, the audience can be for people that cook or for people that have traditions that hold a special meaning or memory to them.

A student at the University of Minnesota, Ben, talks about his own family traditions regarding pies.

Milton Rosa talks about a family tradition passed down from his grandfather to his father of a recipe.

Karyssa Jackson talks her memory of greens during family gatherings.

Laverne Henderson talks about her recipe for greens. She first learned how to cook while watching her mom cook.

Family tradition is important for the identity of that family and creating memories that will be passed down. Family tradition is a way to keep the past cultural ideas present.
MK's storyboard with V's additions MK likes Emily Stover's family tradition in Illinois, with pigs

then moving onto Sue.

Valentine would like to have some part of the video with Noriah (although be careful to not include the parts where my questions are really loud!). This is my favorite part here

And there are some other clips that I think are fantastic:

Laverne Henderson has a wonderful opening for the part on greens (and frankly, so many wonderful parts, but I know you don't have all night!): here

Vivian Mims's greens finishing here
and a clip on pot liquor here

This is a tricky one of Karyssa Jackson (10 wonderful seconds)! you may need to click here, or click SOURCE that shows up when you hover above GREENS! (because it's on DRIVE -- I just couldn't figure out how to get it from drive to youtube; Hamline wouldn't let me download it.) SHE ALSO SAYS SOME REALLY WONDERFUL THINGS FROM 10:51 - 13:00 [or 13:20] -- maybe this will be for the longer version I can show later...)

And it might be fun to include these few seconds of Melvin (singing)

But that shouldn't be the end thing -- so we could come back to Laverne Henderson!

And finally, there are a couple of photos that would be worth working in if we could:
first and second (shared on google drive)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EB31o2aSa0cPNlF0QbLohdtWygg_pJShdA/view?ts=584238ba
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ra5FmqR2BDjc9EOtwv4MM6rtiCsaoJ1nZw/view?ts=5842387f
that last one would be SUCH a good closing shot
Migration and Food For this exploration of migration and food, we'll follow the lead set by Sarah Khan in Migrant Kitchens, and hear stories directly from people in the community.

Sigh worked his way from a dishwasher to a cook to own his own Vietnamese restaurant. Get a glimpse into his kitchen below.

Daniel Salinas shares a story about his parents' authentic Mexican cooking, including grinding their own corn to make tortillas.

Su speaks about the importance of farming among Asian immigrants. This interview reminds me of the chapter in The Color of Food called "Surviving as Transplants," where Pang Chang says: "For Hmong, people, from generation to generation, the knowledge of farming is passed on." Su says it's "in our genes."

With Laverne Henderson's story, we look at migration within the U.S. The discussion of trying to bring greens up from the South reminds me of the chapter "Taste of Home" in The Color of Food when Menkir Tamrat discusses how people would send over essential Ethiopian ingredients, sometimes one bag at a time, for use in restaurants.

Tony shares his appreciation for what we can learn about food from other cultures.
Elise's Video Story Project
Growing and Food Traditions

In Natasha Bowen's book, The Color of Food I learned about agricultural traditions in communities of color that have been passed down through generations. One story that particularly struck my attention was a portrait of agriculturalist Don Bustos. Don Bustos runs a farm in New Mexico where he practices Acequia agriculture and uses his farm as a tool to mentor other people that are interested in starting their own farms. In the portrait Bustos talks about how in the Acequia culture they plant with the moon cycles to use the moon's energy to help their plants grow. For me, growing up as a granddaughter of a farmer and working on a CSA farm as a young adult, I have gathered a little bit of experience in agriculture and farming, but the idea of farming that I knew was always working in the daylight. Bustos also talked about how he knows when it is time to plant, "My mom would always tell me 'always plant when the snow melts over there in the Chacoma, if you plant before that day it will freeze mi'jito.' So we always look at the mountains, the trees, the environment and how that will impact when you plant and what you grow that season." (97) I found it interesting to learn about different traditions farmers and gardeners have so I took this project to learn more about traditions in local communities. While I didn't find many videos about agricultural traditions right now I did find other traditions related to food and growing that brought interesting incites.

In this clip Tim Page talks about connections between communities in the foods they eat and grow.

Here Laverne Henderson talks about how she learned to cook an about home remedies that she learned from her mother.

In the next video Carolyn talks about how how she has grown up eating greens. Now, as an adult Carolyn has formed some of her own traditions of ways to prepare greens and is passing on the traditions to younger generations.

In this last video Vivian Mims talks about the tradition that she carries on with her family. She makes sure that nothing goes to waste and that friends and family stay in good health.
After hearing from a few Frogtown and Rondo community members I hope you reflect on some of your own traditions. What traditions have you learned from your elders? What traditions have you started yourself and what traditions will you carry on to younger generations?