Though the city has always been ahead of the locavore movement, a restaurant boom in the 2010s radically changed the dining landscape. From brats and burgers to bibimbap, Madison’s food scene looks substantially different than it did just a decade ago. Why do Salvatore’s tomato pies have the sauce on the top? Where did chef Tami Lax learn to identify mushrooms in the woods? How did Morris develop its signature ramen? Farm-to-table is a cliché, but its roots among the farmers and chefs of south-central Wisconsin are deep, vibrant, and resilient. In the poem, "Everybody is Somebody's Child," we are given a glimpse of the poet's concern for all people across the globe. The poet travels in this collection: from Madison to Seattle, Santa Fe, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Washington D.C., Chicago, and outside of the country too, to the Caribbean to Isla Mujeres in Mexico. There are also mystical poems in this collection and things the poet cannot explain like in the piece, "Once in Seattle" and in "The Congregation." In Trudell Vasquez's fourth collection her concerns are the same as in all of her previous collections but her way of approaching the page varies. We go back and forth between the present, "They Could Be Sisters," and the past, "Goose Eggs," not just the poet's past but that of her ancestors who came to the Midwest from Mexico in the late 1800s, as displayed in the piece, "My People Redux." The poet's voice is always female and strong, but also vulnerable as in the poem, "Child Pose Cannot Hold." These are poems of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. The poems in the collection, "My People Redux," travel through time.
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The result is a deeply personal tribute to the food of “a land that belongs to you and yours and to me and mine.”Ĭopies of My America will be distributed for free to all attendees. The event is free and open to the public. Interwoven throughout the book are stories of Onwuachi’s travels, illuminating the connections between food and place, and food and culture. From Nigerian Jollof, Puerto Rican Red Bean Sofrito, and Trinidadian Channa (Chickpea) Curry to Jambalaya, Baby Back Ribs, and Red Velvet Cake, these are global home recipes that represent the best of the patchwork that is American cuisine. Featuring more than 125 recipes, My America is a celebration of the food of the African Diaspora, as handed down through Onwuachi’s own family history, spanning Nigeria to the Caribbean, the South to the Bronx, and beyond. What is American food? In his first cookbook, Kwame Onwuachi (“the most important chef in America” -San Francisco Chronicle), the acclaimed author of Notes from a Young Black Chef, shares the dishes of his America dishes that show the true diversity of American food.