Thank you for this! I love how you weaved in Goodie Mob, because for me and my sister growing up in the 80’s and 90’s rap was always apart of doing the work and prep for these meals. I’m an Iowan that started life in an all white evangelical foster home so I never quite took to soul food. After being adopted by my birth mom’s sister, picking and cleaning greens from our garden, cleaning chitlins, snapping peas, canning preserves, shucking corn (cause Iowa), etc., all felt like more ABUSE growing up. I also had an undiagnosed food allergy that often couldn’t make these foods stay down. My dad still reminds me of the rare time that I went off about it at 4 years old and told the whole house that when “I’m grown I’m never having greens and black “eyed” peas in my house”. I was like where are the fish sticks, tater tots, and mayonnaise people? 😂