Known initially as macaroni pie, baked mac and cheese was created by James Hemings, an African American enslaved and trained ...

Jefferson hosted dinners featuring macaroni and cheese, garnering rave reviews, and the rest is sort of American history- as told by White people. However, it wasn’t Jefferson cooking the dish ...

I wanted to give readers of my blog a laugh while asking a serious question: Are the foods and other cultural traditions that mark African ... my mother’s macaroni and cheese, with its savory ...

(If it doesn't have ridges, I don't want it.) Macaroni and cheese is more important than the turkey. It's an African American proverb, you know. — Nikki Miller-Ka Forget the rudimentary stuff ...

So where did people branch off over macaroni & cheese? Adrian Miller has tried to find out. An African-American writer based in Colorado, he tackled the question in his first book, “Soul Food ...

As with many foods, white culture and African-American culture diverge on the make and use of macaroni and cheese. Food historian Adrian Miller points out that while Thomas Jefferson often gets ...

Macaroni and cheese as we know it dates back to Roman ... author of “The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South,” says to ESSENCE.

Barbecue started here, macaroni and cheese, ice cream started here ... Learn more about her and her exploration of both African-American and Virginian food culture on the latest episode of ...