Amatullah Jabriel
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Soul Food For You
Cooking has been apart of my life for as far back as I can remember, and for me, that’s as early as two and half years old. My grandmother always had me hip-side, so when baking sweet potato pies, I was the spoon licker and bowl cleaner or, if it was sugar snap peas, after she’d open the peas and throw the shell I would be sure to pick up remnants needing to be discarded. I was always there and in hinds sight I didn’t realize that not only was I physically present but I was paying attention…taking in the details, the aromatic smells, attention to seasonings and flavorings - never a measuring cup, just a dash of this, a pinch of that, a bit more of that there. My grandmother affectionately called Mom-ma was mostly quiet, wasn’t much on words and with so much noise inside the home from others her power was in quieting the soul with cooked food served.
By Amatullah Jabriel3 years ago in Feast