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Jim Embry

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From Carlo Petrini to Eddie Mukiibi: Why the Future of Slow Food Matters to Black Appalachia

My journey into the global food movement began on a Black family farm in Madison County, Kentucky, located at the foothills of eastern Appalachia. Long before I ever traveled to Italy, met Carlo Petrini, or sat across a table from Edie Mukiibi, I learned lessons about food, land, family, and community from people whose names would never appear in newspapers or history books but who laid the foundation for my work as an agrarian, intellectual activist.

Carlo Petrini and the Great Remembering Through Food
Earth Day in Black Appalachia: From Camp Nelson to a Sustainable Future
Honoring a Life of Storytelling: Accepting the NABS Zora Neale Hurston Award on Behalf of Dr. William H. Turner
Juneteenth has a complicated history that we need to understand even as we celebrate