Summary Of Hog And Hominy By Frederick Douglass Opie

Frederick Douglass Opie introduces his book, Hog and Hominy, by introducing the term soul food and how it takes African Americans in the United States back to their roots in Africa as well as telling the story of how soul food has evolved over time. Chapter one begins with Opie enlightening the audience with the exploration of the New World by the Spanish and Portuguese. These explorers introduces cultures that have been discovered to new ingredients and crops such as, herbs and spices, peaches as well as domesticated pigs and hens which would forever change and evolve soul food over the next few years. Traditions are also widely discussed through the first three chapters of the book as Opie explains to the reader how African American slaves