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  • Cacao-Café No Lait Pudding

    Cacao-Café No Lait Pudding Yield: 4 Servings Soundtrack: “Brown Paper People” by Lila Downs from Una Sangre – One Blood Growing up, I used to love chocolate pudding. Since Bill Cosby convinced my mom that dangling a pudding pop in front of me would be an incentive to eat all my vegetables, I would even…

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  • Uncle Don's Double Mustard Greens & Roasted Yam Soup

    Yield: Serves 4 to 6 Soundtrack: “I Can’t Stand the Rain” by Ann Peebles from Brand New Classics Working on my first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, was a deeply spiritual process for me. I often tell close friends how the book was written through me. Inspired by a technique described in…

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  • Sweet, Sour & Spicy Blackberry Limeade

    Sweet, Sour & Spicy Blackberry Limeade Yield: 2 Servings Soundtrack: “Very Special” by Duke Ellington With Charles Mingus & Max Roach from Money Jungle.” After a few friends living on the east coast told me that they were nursing their second and third colds of this year, I conjured up this recipe. I don’t know…

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  • Sweet Sweetback's Salad: a recipe from the Eco-Soul Kitchen

    Sweet Sweetback’s Salad with Roasted Beet Vinaigrette Yield: 4 Servings You bled my momma! You bled my poppa! (But you won’t bleed ME!) — as echoed over Earth Wind, and Fire’s music in the 1971 film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song Last weekend I was in Los Angeles filming an episode for “Mario’s Greenhouse,” a television…

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  • New Orleans — Food. Art. Culture.

    Mike Molina, one of my buddies from Xavier, composed this poem to open up my “Mardi Gras (Phat Tuesday)” menu in Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen. Hurricane Katrina devastated the city less than six months later. Down in New Orleans Saffron skies chase down the sun Another sultry day is done Heat seasoned…

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  • Rebirth Brunch

    Maple-Coated Pecans Yield: 1 pound (4 cups) 1 pound (4 cups) pecan halves 1/4 cup olive oil 1/4 cup maple syrup 1/2 cup organic raw cane sugar · Preheat the oven to 375°F. · Spread the pecans on a large baking sheet and toast for 4 minutes, stirring halfway through the cooking. · Remove the…

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  • From the Eco-Soul Kitchen: Rebirth Brunch

    Agave-Sweetened Double-Orange Pekoe Tea Yield: about one gallon When it comes to non-alcoholic, beverage staples from The South, “Sweet Tea” will consistently be in the top two along with lemonade. And it ain’t called “sweet” for nothing. Although “Sweet Tea” usually comes pre-sweetened with white sugar, most people add just a lil’ bit more of…

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  • Eco-Soul Kitchen: The Rebirth Brunch

    DERIVATIVE Equinox-Easter; Rebirth and resurrection are synonymous. Betsy-Katrina; Rebirth and resurrection are synonymous. —b. terry I bet you’re already thinking about this Sunday’s Easter dinner.  Come on.  Admit it.  Visions are dancing in your head of succulent honey glazed ham surrounded by sweet, caramelized, roasted root vegetables; rich, creamy mac and cheese with a golden…

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  • Reclaiming True Grits

    Mention “soul food” and you will hear scores of health and medical professionals claim that it is the downfall of the health and well-being of African Americans. It is true that African Americans have some of the highest rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and some cancers of any group in this country. But frankly,…

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