{"id":4982,"date":"2004-10-06T20:32:04","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T20:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2021-06-10T22:27:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:27:55","slug":"greens-in-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/10\/06\/greens-in-black-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens in Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/06\/dining\/06SOUL.html\">Greens in Black and White<\/a><br \/>\nThe New York Times<br \/>\nOctober 6, 2004<br \/>\nBy WARREN ST. JOHN<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TO most Southerners, few things are as pleasing as plopping down before a heaping plate of simple, home-style cooking &#8211; dishes like collard or turnip greens, fried chicken, black-eyed peas, corn bread, sweet potato casserole. This type of food is so evocative of the easygoing contentment of home that Southerners &#8211; and even much of the rest of America &#8211; refer to it simply as comfort food.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a potentially uncomfortable conversation to be had about Southern comfort food, one that has simmered like creamy gravy on a stove top for perhaps 20 years and may now reach a very public boil: how much of what is called Southern cooking can be traced to black culture, and how much to white?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens in Black and White The New York Times October 6, 2004 By WARREN ST. JOHN TO most Southerners, few things are as pleasing as plopping down before a heaping plate of simple, home-style&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","category-news-clips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1im","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/7025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}