Workshop Reflection

  The workshop that we had last week opened  a connection between food and history that is not talked about much. I never made the connection that good played an important role in the civil rights movement and the black panther party. The free breakfast program introduced by the black panther program aimed to aid the black community, but in the end it inspired a nationwide program. Another example of a way that food represented an important historical moment was the invention of jerk, the mix of herbs and spices used by the Jamaican Maroons after escaping slavery under Spanish rule. After escaping they relocated to an area that was not suitable for agriculture or creating large fires, as a result they turned to hunting and scavenging for food. With the collaboration of a neighboring tribe the recipe for the famous jerk seasoning came to be. Foods can come to represent famous events in history.