Bless Your Spoon: Celebrating a heritage of Southern cuisine - The Stanly News & Press

Bless Your Spoon: Celebrating a heritage of Southern cuisine - The Stanly News & Press

By Stephanie Williams Dean Before the bugle plays taps — lights out on February — let’s blow the horn one more time in celebration of Black History Month. I’m a total buy-in, to words I recently read by chef Adrienne Cheatham, giving praise to the legacy of Black American culinary history, notably referred to as, Southern cuisine. In her book, “Sunday Best,” she destroys all myths of Black American foods as having been poorly characterized as he…