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A Taste Of African Heritage In Dallas

Lauren Silverman
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KERA News
Michaela Taylor cooks a cauliflower and brown rice dish as part of a cultural cooking class.

Dallas residents are dipping into the dishes that gave rise to Soul Food. They're part of a cultural cooking class that aims to bring back traditional, healthy recipes from the African Diaspora.

At a cooking class in her Southwest Dallas apartment complex, Taylor and a handful of others are learning to prepare greens, grains, peas and beans – African-American heritage foods.

 

For the complete story, and a recipe for blackened Okra and African Peanut Soup, check out the Breakthroughs post

Lauren Silverman was the Health, Science & Technology reporter/blogger at KERA News. She was also the primary backup host for KERA’s Think and the statewide newsmagazine  Texas Standard. In 2016, Lauren was recognized as Texas Health Journalist of the Year by the Texas Medical Association. She was part of the Peabody Award-winning team that covered Ebola for NPR in 2014. She also hosted "Surviving Ebola," a special that won Best Long Documentary honors from the Public Radio News Directors Inc. (PRNDI). And she's won a number of regional awards, including an honorable mention for Edward R. Murrow award (for her project “The Broken Hip”), as well as the Texas Veterans Commission’s Excellence in Media Awards in the radio category.