Cooking Demonstration: FREE. Meal Donation: $50 (only 50 tickets available)
Food historian Clarissa Clifton and Chef Cheryl Henry will prepare a full meal outdoors over an open pit, as was done during slavery. Guests are welcome to observe the eight-hour preparation and stay for dinner to be served at 5 PM. The menu is as follows: Appetizer: Hoe Cakes served with Strawberry Preserves and Crème Fresh on top. Entrée; Hoppin’ John with Smoke Bones, Roasted Chicken cooked over saplings, Greens with ham hocks, salt fish with peas and rice, and roasted beets.. Desert: Homemade Pies. During the day, guests may also tour the Slavery Exhibits in the Willow Hill Museum.

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