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Frederick Douglass Opie is the author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America, Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala,1882-1923 the forthcoming book Black and Latino Relation in New York 1959 to 1989, and a blogger at http://www.foodasalens.com/. Opie has appeared on the popular American Public Media show The Splendid Table. He appears in the television series Appetite City and in the documentary Soul Food Junkie. Opie is Professor of History and Foodways at Babson College. During his fellowship year Opie will be working on a book project titled “A Culinary Read of Zora Neale Hurston,” which focuses on Caribbean and Southern cooking in Zora Neale Hurston’s early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing. The book will look at how African diaspora foodways, class, syncretism, and topography shaped the eating habits of diasporic communities in early twentieth-century Caribbean and U.S. South.
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Institute for our website and promotional materials During his fellowship year Professor Opie will be working on a book project titled “A Culinary Read of Zora Neale Hurston,” which focuses on Caribbean and Southern cooking in Zora Neale Hurston’s early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing. The book will look at how African diaspora foodways, class, syncretism, and topography shaped the eating habits of diasporic communities in early twentieth-century Caribbean and U.S. South.