Serving Tee: Mac & Cheese

Serving Tee, February 2022

Here’s some Sunday dinner Tee:

It is often assumed that Black folk are naturals in the kitchen.
And we are.

It is rarely acknowledged that cooking, is an art. Craft.
Here’s some acknowledgement:

Thomas Jefferson is credited with popularizing Macaroni and Cheese in the South.

We know Thomas wan’t in the kitchen stirring a béchamel sauce.

That would be James Hemings.

James Hemings an enslaved man, was Jefferson’s valet, chauffeur, and chef during the late 18th century in Monticello. In the Spring of 1783, by Jefferson’s command, Hemings trained under a French chef in Annapolis, before undergoing even more training with chefs of five star kitchens of 18th century France.
After his training, he became the head chef at Jefferson’s palace in Paris, where he supervised a French-speaking staff for Jefferson’s extravagant dinners.
Find out more at @jameshemingsorg

Stoop and Stank wrapped this lesson up in this feel good hoodie. Go ahead and grab yourself a reminder of history.

Serving Tee: Nah

The other day I was minding my own Black bidness #onhere serving the serve.
This white boy commented.
Something to the tune that the collective white we didn’t care.

And rather than read him about the time he took to inform me that he didn’t care blah blah rhetoric, I just blocked his ass.

Because, Nah.
You don’t get my peace. Or access.

I honestly don’t remember where I got the tee. I’ve never tagged it so Im thinking it wasn’t a Black shirtmaker.

And also?? I gotta full nappy ponytail. With no product.
Just a lil mo Black Excellence to sweeten the tee.