Day 5: Okra (or Love as Invention)
What does it mean to belong to a food you do not love? For me, that food is okra.
Day 4: Salt Pork (or Love as Preservation)
Before refrigeration, there was smoke. Before abundance, there was salt. Preservation meant survival.
Day 2: Cornbread (or Love as Grounding)
Cornbread as we know it emerged at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge, African ingenuity, and brutal necessity. For some it was accompaniment. For others, survival.