Okra Stew/Gumbo: Who Are the Gullah/Geechee People? #weoutchea #gullah #geechee #gola #kissi #angola

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Okra Stew/Gumbo: Who Are the Gullah/Geechee People? #weoutchea #gullah #geechee #gola #kissi #angola

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  1. 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.

  2. 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 ❤

  3. 🙋🏾‍♀️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.

    This is also the same time many mutinies happened and our ancestors diverted ships to islands in the so-called Caribbean.

  4. 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.

  5. 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!

  6. 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 😂

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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 😮

  11. 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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  12. 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 😢.

  13. 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”