Hoecakes recipe and history: how the Southern cornbread got its name.

Hoecakes recipe and history: how the Southern cornbread got its name.:

According to a popular story, hoecakes got their name from the slave practice of cooking them on field hoes. If you've ever made hoecakes, this sounds like a near impossible task, and the appeal of this origin story is surely its evocation of the industriousness, fortitude, and resilience that defines much early American cooking, particularly African-American cooking. But the story’s power as a metaphor is stronger than its case as historical fact. As Rod Cofield, author of the paper “How the Hoe Cake (Most Likely) Got its Name,” explained to me, hoe was a colloquial term for griddle dating back to at least the 1600s in parts of England, where baking cakes on boards or griddles was commonplace.

 

Hoecakes recipe and history: how the Southern cornbread got its name.

Hoecakes recipe and history: how the Southern cornbread got its name.:

According to a popular story, hoecakes got their name from the slave practice of cooking them on field hoes. If you've ever made hoecakes, this sounds like a near impossible task, and the appeal of this origin story is surely its evocation of the industriousness, fortitude, and resilience that defines much early American cooking, particularly African-American cooking. But the story’s power as a metaphor is stronger than its case as historical fact. As Rod Cofield, author of the paper “How the Hoe Cake (Most Likely) Got its Name,” explained to me, hoe was a colloquial term for griddle dating back to at least the 1600s in parts of England, where baking cakes on boards or griddles was commonplace.

 

Linda Brown dies; she was at center of Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case - CNN

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Interior Secretary Zinke wants Spokane Tribe compensated for loss of land and lifestyle to Grand Coulee Dam | The Seattle Times

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The dam was built without fish ladders more than 75 years ago, cutting off critical salmon runs. Tribal lands were flooded, forcing families out. “I like the challenge of some of these older wrongs that need to be righted,” said Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

Interior Secretary Zinke wants Spokane Tribe compensated for loss of land and lifestyle to Grand Coulee Dam | The Seattle Times

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The dam was built without fish ladders more than 75 years ago, cutting off critical salmon runs. Tribal lands were flooded, forcing families out. “I like the challenge of some of these older wrongs that need to be righted,” said Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

Underground Railroad refuge for hundreds of slaves discovered in Philadelphia - The Washington Post

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Seattle is shedding diversity; the state's minority populations grow | Crosscut

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Clothes as Historical Sources: What Bloomers Reveal about the Women Who Wore Them - American Historical Association

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Rayon, an Epidemic of Insanity, and the Woman Who Fought to Expose It

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How Bacon and Eggs Became the American Breakfast

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