Let’s blast the past! In this episode we discuss mid-20th-century American recipes and bake Jessie Sheehan’s incomparable and high femme silver cake. Sources:

 

https://www.jessiesheehanbakes.com/2018/05/19/silver-cake-with-pink-frosting/

 

COOLEY, A. (2015). To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South. University of Georgia Press. Retrieved November 12, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt17573sg

 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-enslaved-chefs-helped-shape-american-cuisine-180969697/

 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/3/140301-african-american-food-history-slavery-south-cuisine-chefs/

 

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/food-matters/eating-jim-crow/