The Food
What were ancestors fed to fatten them up before they were allowed on the boat to cross?
what is Black eyed peas and palm oil?
What derogatory name did white people call black workers on the trains when they wanted to put them in their place?
Who is George?
Creole is a culture influenced by many cultures and countries, but which continent planted the seeds of influence in Louisiana?
what is Africa?
What railroad job did many African American men have that allowed some upward mobility?
what is a pullman porter?
what is fried chicken?
Which of the following ingredients is NOT used in making Cornbread Kush?
Options: Flour, Milk , lard, water
what is milk?
What were you given as a sharecropper in the 1940s and 50s?
Options: 500/600 sq.ft slave cabin; 1/2 acre to plant your personal crops; a and b
what is a&b?
What was the second stop in this episode?
Options: Queens, Jamaica; Edgard, Louisiana; Love Island; Richmond Virginia
what is Edgard, Louisiana?
What Harlem restaurant owner is called the "Queen of Creole Cuisine"?
what is Leah chase?
In New Orleans, the chef that introduced them to a fusion of West African and New Orleans cuisine was from which African country?
what is senegal?
Which of the following was NOT listed as one of the kinds of fishes being caught in the bayou?
Options: Snapper, perch, trout, Tilapia
What is Tilapia?
During the period of Reconstruction, how many black people were working in government positions?
what is 2,000?
What was the third stop in this episode?
what is Chicago, Illinois ?
What food practice did enslaved Africans continue in the American South to feed themselves even after the great migration?
(hint: this is a method of growing food)
what is gardening?
How did the Creole population create “another kind of world?”
what is music, newspapers, arts?
What vegetable, originating in Africa, became a staple in Southern cuisine?
what is okra?
In what year was share-cropping phased out?
what is the 1960s?
The “Dooky Chase restaurant” was a place to do what?
what is " have a final meeting before saying goodbye" ?
what was the name of the lousiana plantation worker mentioned in this episode?
what is Elvin shields?
This term for a culturally blended people in Louisiana, especially noted in New Orleans, derives from the Spanish 'crear,' pointing to the creation and development of a new, distinct identity in America.
what is creole?
The popular West African dish, Jollof Rice is likened to which popular South Louisiana dish?
what is jambalaya?
Who enslaved Michelle Joan Papillion’s ancestor, Marguerite?
what is Gregoire Guillory?
Approximately, How many people traveled to Illinois during the great migration? (in the thousands)
what is 500 thousand?
How heavy did the people of Goree Island, Senegal have to be in order to make the trip across the Atlantic via boat?
what is 60 kilos?
what is the African name for the bean fritters that Serigne Mybaye made?
what is aKara?