Virgo Goddess🐚🇵🇸

I wish Americans would actually research anything before centering themselves in the universe. It didn't occur to you that she was sharing Senegalese culture? You're the closed-minded ones here. Again. All of soul food's roots come from Africa because those recipes were brought by slaves to the Americas. Senegal's national dish is fried smothered chicken. It is where soul food came from! Michael W. Twitty connects Yassa to the history of African American soul food as part of his broader historical thesis regarding the Senegambia region and the concept of "culinary memory." Twitty heavily emphasizes that the Senegambia region (modern-day Senegal and The Gambia) was one of the most critical cultural engines of the Transatlantic slave trade. Because a vast number of enslaved people brought to the American South came from this region, particularly to the Lowcountry of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Louisianatheir specific culinary habits became what he calls a "catalyst culture". He tracks Yassa historically as an indigenous Wolof and Serer dish from Senegal's Casamance region. In Twitty's historical framework, Yassa represents the complex culinary mastery that enslaved Africans possessed before arriving in the Americas. They weren't just low-wage laborers; they were agriculturists and cooks with sophisticated methods for preserving and flavoring food.