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'Black Food Week' celebrates Austin area's black-owned restaurants
kvue ^ | July 21, 2019 | Drew Knight

Posted on 07/22/2019 3:15:18 PM PDT by bgill

Austin's "Black Food Week" is back again, giving black-owned restaurants across the Austin area a chance to shine as the spotlight is turned to them.

Sponsored by the Austin Justice Coalition, Black Food Week aims to give the Austin community information about Austin's new and longstanding black-owned restaurants that have become pillars in the Austin community.

This year, the event actually runs for two whole weeks, beginning on July 22 and lasting through Aug. 3.

"We hope that the community not only finds these restaurants as enjoyable dining experiences but also an educational tool that prompts supporting locally owned minority businesses,"

(Excerpt) Read more at kvue.com ...


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To: reed13k

You forgot Black pudding. Yum.


21 posted on 07/22/2019 4:03:09 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (It's Ok to be white.)
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To: carriage_hill

My great great grandparents ate out of the same bean pot as their slaves.


22 posted on 07/22/2019 4:09:33 PM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

I’d pass on the collards.


23 posted on 07/22/2019 4:21:26 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: bgill

Blacks wouldn’t have any cuisines whatsoever had it not been for Europeans.

Most other cultures wouldn’t either to be honest.


24 posted on 07/22/2019 4:26:26 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: reed13k

Black olives matter.


25 posted on 07/22/2019 4:28:49 PM PDT by trublu
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To: trublu

Black truffles matter more...much more...$$$$$


26 posted on 07/22/2019 4:37:42 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: carriage_hill

I make great collards.


27 posted on 07/22/2019 4:42:41 PM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

Black food week eh? Does that mean that all the food will be colored black or burned?


28 posted on 07/22/2019 5:07:41 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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29 posted on 07/22/2019 6:44:30 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: bgill

There are Italian, German, etc food weeks. Since slavery mixed up many cultural food habits there is such a thing as specifically black Americans food. It’s not very healthy in my 7, from what I’ve try, which was litt7, it was mostly fried stuff


30 posted on 07/22/2019 9:42:15 PM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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