Okra Stew/Gumbo: Who Are the Gullah/Geechee People? #weoutchea #gullah #geechee #gola #kissi #angola
Okra Stew/Gumbo: Who Are the Gullah/Geechee People? #weoutchea #gullah #geechee #gola #kissi #angola
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Well then. I'ma make the tour.😊
That's very cool to know! Thanks
Nigerian American here and okra soup with shrimp and dried fish served with pounded yam is my favorite. Frist time i had gumbo in South Carolina, damn near cried knowing West African culture endured through the travesties of slavery.
Love these videos. Always enlightening.
I'm not American but appreciated the history/anthropology lesson! Food is such a powerful thing, helping define people and their cultures, tell stories of their histories, and unites people while nurturing both body and soul ❤
Yes, indeed. I. Am Gola/Gulah/Via and Mende. Also read the book yesterday at work.
🙋🏾♀️As abolition efforts ramped up and as our ancestors kept mounting collective self liberation efforts, enslavers responded by sending us en mass from the Eastern seaboard to the 'deep' south. Sometimes on foot. But most often by ship… From the Carolinas to Louisiana.
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This is also the same time many mutinies happened and our ancestors diverted ships to islands in the so-called Caribbean.
I so enjoy tidbits of knowledge. Thanks for your fun channel.
We would have "okra gumbo" with dinner when I grew up. I still make it now. However I don't eat rice.
When you say our ancestors are you talking about your particular ones? Because the people I have known and worked with from Kenya and South Africa and Nigeria would not say they were from West Africa. They would say they were from Kenya and South Africa and Nigeria. As Africa is a continent and not a country as so many people seem to believe.
And no matter where The word comes from, okra is still slimy little pieces hanging around in my stew or my soup sliding down my throat. Yuck!
Love the gesture on "word of mouth!" Another awesome and elucidating short; thank you!
I want sum gumbo now😭
I'm learning so much about myself from your channel. I really appreciate you.
I remember learning about this translation years ago and it tickles me to know we have (and say) okra gumbo which is okra okra. Now….there are a few different gumbos here but that still makes me giggle to myself 😂
I normally try to not be too pedantic, but this is one of my pet peeves. I cook and talk food a lot, and people will tell me sometimes that they've never had okra in their gumbo. Normally I'd let something like that slide, but not with gumbo. I tell them, I'm sorry, then you haven't had gumbo. Gumbo means okra, if there's no okra, you're not eating gumbo. "My family's been making gumbo all my life–" and I'm sure that's a good stew with a lot of good things in it. It just isn't gumbo. That's like baking a chicken and calling it roast beef, it's just not right.
Fascinating! Food ways are so interesting
Being from a large poor irish mix family in the south. My favorite food growing up was salted boiled okra, and poke salad drowned in vinegar.
Its still some of my favorite comfort food.
Angola is closer to east or south Africa. Its south of the Congos and North of Namibia
As a Nigerian, I love our Okra Soup!! 😋😋😋
That was really interesting, thank you
Okra stew and soup and a major food staple in Ghana.
Thank you. Much love.
They both sound delicious 🙂
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I love a good history lesson Thank you
I so love his brain! He's handsome too😊
I've seen recipes for okra soup/okra stew from West Africa! It looks so good. I love that fish are a seasoning. Homemade MSG!
Okra and Casava are Indigenous to the Americas. Stop trying to force this fake agenda on my people.
Weren’t they always there
Also both seem delicious. Never had okra…
I need that book for my baby her father's family is geechie and shes going to the island for Christmas ❤
In my Caribbean island we have a radio comedy series called Okras in de Stew. We are also West African in origin.
Neat
Huh neat, Food History is such a fascinating topic thank you for the lesson today.
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Wow this is beautiful to see 😍. I wish more Black Americans could trace back their roots and history like this and embrace some aspects of it. No doubt our cultures are similar in some ways for a reason. Also, when I see black Americans, many of their facial features look like west Africans.
Huh, that is really really cool to learn! I'd love to try Gullah Geechee food someday! It sounds delish!
You crack open the door to a whole new culture to me. I am a white woman living in Scotland. Thanks I know so little that some of your excellent work beyond my understanding. Thanks for expanding my world 😮
So many of the foods from the culture of so called 'negro', 'colored' or 'black' peoples is a wondrous amalgamation of our melanated Aboriginal Turtle Islander and African enslaved ancestors. The African Okra, sweet potato and certain greens got married to the Aboriginal pumpkin, squash, beans, rice and corn. In addition to the S American and Caribbean Aboriginal cassava. It's awesome cookin'…
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In some areas of Haiti, Okra is also called gumbo or Gombo or Kaloloo Gombo.
East African Okra meat stew "Bamia" 😋😋😋😋
Some islands in the Caribbean have okra as part of their national dish.
Whhhaaaaat!!!!? Omg, how have I NEVER learned this?? It makes me sad to think of all the other things I don’t know about our people 😢.
Thank You For Explaining This ❤❤!!!
You talked about this before and I really didn't understand 😕!
Love !
Please keep your food traditions alive people. Worst thing you can do to a dish is to keep it a “ secret recipe”. Too often secret family recipe dishes get lost to time because they were “secret”
Thanks for your videos. Blessings ❤
Proud to be Gullah Geechie heritage❤❤❤ Those are my two favorite dishes!