Gullah Geechee Foodways in Southeastern NC

[@sweetoneloves6811]

My culture, Pure Geechee love. Soon as it is safe, I am coming to visit, eat good food, and relax...TRUE DAT !

[@latoyaollivierre8007]

I hate when ppl say migrated our ancestors didn’t migrate here, they were kidnapped. My family is from Savannah

[@savedandsanctified4126]

Thank you

[@saponi1965]

I agree

[@Gullahbae-xm6ms]

Amen! My ancestors weren’t immigrants or migrants. They were brought here as slaves. They didn’t choose nor wanted to come here…

[@HomeSkillit]

Same with my Irish ancestors in the 1600s

[@GULLAHTV33]

@@HomeSkillityou don’t know what your saying 😂 . You should learn to mind ya own folks business instead ours boy

[@curtisthomas2670]

Fun fact: Carolina Gold rice belongs to the rice species oryza glabirrema which is indigenous to Africa and was domesticated by Africans thousands of years ago independently from the domestication of Asian rice oryza sativa in Asia. Europeans found large areas of cultivated rice in West Africa and carried rice and experienced planters to the Americas during the Slave Trade. Carolina Gold rice became a major food staple crop and the majority rice grown in the US until the Civil War era. Another African rice strain was Red Bearded Upland rice which was grown on dry land and hillsides. Thomas Jefferson imported a large cask of it and distributed it to different parts of the South hoping that it could replace wetland rice in mosquito and malaria prone areas, but as it required much more labour to plant, maintain and process it never caught on as a large scale commercial crop, but was grown by slaves and free blacks as a subsistence crop in some areas, until it too was phased out during the Civil War. Runaway slaves who joined the British army during the War of 1812 and who were later resettled in the British Caribbean colony of Trinidad took Red Bearded Upland rice cultivation to the island, where it is still grown as a heritage and minor commercial crop under the name Moruga Hill Rice

[@tdking1960]

Great history lesson! Just one thing , our ancestors did not migrate here. They were stolen and or sold.

[@chocolatepie84]

I'm a proud gullah geechee. My entire family is from the coast of SC in Georgetown but Sampit to be exact. My parents moved to GA before I was born. I'll always remember my paternal grandfather's accent was so strong I rarely understood what he said as a child. I miss my grandparents so much.

[@oneupforthesonof]

I was just on ancestry and it linked to Charleston but my grand parents moved to paulding county Georgia so it seems like something that was common maybe but they all moved to Georgia n now Los Angeles

[@imjustarie9890]

Very very good document! 🎉great job

[@Ladyvet-52]

Born and raised in the Midwest. I knew my maternal grandmother was from Tennessee and paternal grandmother from Mississippi. However I was surprised when my ancestry shows that many of my ancestors came from the Carolinas. However when I look at the Gullah foods that I started learning to cook at 7 yrs old. I most definitely see and feel the influence. I’m still looking for those family members ❤

[@marythomas2646]

South Carolina is my family roots. I’m am Geeche.

[@remylebeau5212]

Same! 🖤💙💛💚

[@elizabethannbacchus4194]

Nice to know such history, make sure things are properly documented and passed on to other generations. Put in book form

[@lelachristian9174]

What a touching Story to be in tuned with my Culture while some of it brought tears to my eyes. Much love to everyone and may God forever & richly bless you!!!

[@dontayewilliams4227]

There is no place on earth like Charleston. As a North Carolina native I absolutely LOVE the people and the culture! Proud to say I have 4 Geechee churn and a Geechee gyal. As a chef, I love how much West Africa influences the taste here. No matter how hard they tried to hold us down, WE set the tone for "black food" in America North!

[@emmettpinkston236]

Thank you. This reality is needed to be remembered by all.

[@williammoore2982]

It's good to see the Gullah Geechee culture, as well as the Minorcan culture finally being recognized .

[@nildabridgeman8104]

So much wisdom, knowledge and understanding for OUR TIME. I especially like what was said "If you're starving for nutrition, it affects how you think".. dear Lord I believe most all the country is starving when you look at what most people eat. Outright full bellies that are starving for nutrition. I have to say every dish I saw had my mouth watering.. 🍛🍲

[@gwensmith6]

Glad to see so many different dishes come up. Soul food is many dishes,many flavors,techniques and variations. We ate many vegetables not even talked about. I give dinners to show these things. People look in awe of rutabaga stew. So glad to see this food that has sustained us throughout the centuries comes forth and is not ignored. Nations thrived on this food.

[@Gullahbae-xm6ms]

Soul food and Gullah cuisine aren’t the same though…

[@alexandrasahoye5380]

Amazing food and culture.

[@drewjones1613]

Thanks for sharing

[@northcarolinaricefestival848]

Thanks for watching!

[@doreenx5906]

Thank you for this past & present history. We are always learning something new. We appreciate you 😊. Dxf

[@CCMRPM]

terrific video thank you!

[@rareonyxx2095]

Any knowledge of the folks taken from Bladen County, NC and brought to Long Island Bahamas (to Charles Town and Deadmans Cay)? Peace and Love

[@remylebeau5212]

Omg never heard of this and my family still is in Bladen County

[@ariesone1878]

Thank you. My mother, grandmother and grandfather were from Sumter, SC.

[@frizzbegurl9194]

Wow Chef! Fantastic piece!

[@northcarolinaricefestival848]

Thank you kindly

[@zoe-ml8cx]

They didn’t migrate they were trafficked as slaves bound in the bottom of ships some dead thrown overboard drowned So please speak on the trade of folkes like it was Then come to the good part of how they made it they were used for their knowledge of cultivating and brewer's None of us know how terrible their lives were Thats y they ate the parts of the animals that was thrown out But because they can cook and know how to make things better they survived

[@donaldjenkins4782]

My mother was born and raised in Wilmington, NC. My father was born and raised in Charleston, SC.

[@aliwalk5179]

I Love this video 💗 Thnx fu shr'n 🔥 Glory to God, this is the way we should all love and share💞💨

[@anitagillenwater6614]

Chef Weston your okra tomato shrimp dish looks delicious! Do you have any cookbooks and how can I get them for my daughters? I also like your apron fabric.

[@annettecrossley2154]

Yes indeed, this brings back memories from my childhood days. Although my siblings and I were raised in the Midwest, our parents and grandparents were from Mississippi. I must say some of the food we ate were very similar to the Carolina Gullah Geechee. The rice, neck bones, pig feet, pig 🐖 tails, Agro Syrup . Please let's not forget that fat back ( as my daddy would say, bring back some strick a' lean, strick a' fat.

[@sdk2350]

Has anyone gone on any tours that you would recommend? We would like to experience the food, visit the land and living quarters of our ancestors? (Geechee culture and all of our others. There's so much for us to learn.)

[@bessie9565]

I'm glad someone is now telling truth.

[@leomamgwelima107]

Well preserve culture 👏

[@mesagoat]

'we gittin' ready to taste a lil bit o' SURVIVAL rite 'chere🤤'... ahhhh yes he did!🥳

[@deborahsmith6609]

But some slaves came from the Caribbean then to the US; so their descendants are Caribbean too… your Gullah people are West Indians.

[@the83rd33]

this is dope. one thing id say, we gotta stop still referring to them as master. slave perpetrator suits them and is energetically more accurate.

[@SharonReid-l7d]

❤

[@peggychandler-nt2mr]

Migrated

[@InjunZ]

🪶💪🏾

[@jbird9220]

Please give us one source for this slave and slop story.

[@FayeHolt]

rewriting history still....

[@jbird9220]

@@FayeHolt rewriting theories

[@curtisthomas2670]

Fun fact: Carolina Gold rice belongs to the rice species oryza glabirrema which is indigenous to Africa and was domesticated by Africans thousands of years ago independently from the domestication of Asian rice oryza sativa in Asia. Europeans found large areas of cultivated rice in West Africa and carried rice and experienced planters to the Americas during the Slave Trade. Carolina Gold rice became a major food staple crop and the majority rice grown in the US until the Civil War era. Another African rice strain was Red Bearded Upland rice which was grown on dry land and hillsides. Thomas Jefferson imported a large cask of it and distributed it to different parts of the South hoping that it could replace wetland rice in mosquito and malaria prone areas, but as it required much more labour to plant, maintain and process it never caught on as a large scale commercial crop, but was grown by slaves and free blacks as a subsistence crop in some areas, until it too was phased out during the Civil War. Runaway slaves who joined the British army during the War of 1812 and who were later resettled in the British Caribbean colony of Trinidad took Red Bearded Upland rice cultivation to the island, where it is still grown as a heritage and minor commercial crop under the name Moruga Hill Rice