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This Classic Kwanzaa Cookbook Invites Improvisation
Dr. Jessica B. Harris revisits and expands “A Kwanzaa Keepsake,” her highly personal book from 1995.
As 2024 was running out and a new year loomed, the prolific cookbook author and culinary historian Jessica B. Harris was thinking about Oxford’s word of the year: brain rot.
“We’re all suffering from varying degrees and intensities of brain rot,” said Dr. Harris, who had just taken a short, intentional break from her own digital overconsumption with a cozy mystery novel and a couple of episodes of “The Crown” before zipping from her home in New Orleans to New York for the holidays. It wasn’t a full reset, but it was a start.
“People are feeling all sorts of pressures right now — racially, culturally, economically,” she said. “Kwanzaa is a time to come together, a time for people to renew and regroup and revivify.”
Recipe: Holiday Gingerbread Cake With Molasses Whipped Cream
