Hello Readers!
It has been a minute and so much has happened in my life. Literally, my last blog was in 2020…Jesus, what a time?! I have loved, lost, gained, grown, and continued to eat and read!
Right before my 45th birthday, I lost my courageously smart beautiful mother, Rev. J. R. Atkinson. Before, she got sick and transitioned to be with the ancestors, I had kind of lost the love cooking and eating. I did start reading more and more, but then, I my oldest daughter (who wants to be a chef in the future) started asking me to find recipes for her to cook each week. Not only did it lovingly force me back into my cookbooks, but also back into the kitchen with her and my youngest daughter. It reminded me of me, my Mom and my sister in the kitchen when I was young. Then, about a day or two after my Mom’s funeral, I found her recipe box filled with recipes from the 70, 80, and 90s from Bisquick boxes to cans of Campbell’s soup. I left them in the house, because I wasn’t ready to dive in without crying but I am gearing up the courage to come back to them. In the meantime, I have immersed myself into books (mostly, fantasy and sci-fi by BIPOC author’s) and food again!
So, we are back and I will be documenting through writing, videos, and pictures. I I just discovered Edna Lewis through a PBS documentary and ordered one of her many books. So, I will be making some recipes with my babies from her book and talking about the amazing food I have had in the past couple months, one place specifically, Barcelona in Pittsburg, PA (there is a DC location, I will try soon as well).
So stay with me as I rediscover my love for food and books!
Current Reads:
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn
An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson
Pick them up NOW! I can’t put them down….so essential to my being right now.
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