“Sometimes I wonder if the burning bush Moses encountered smelled like hickory,” Author and Culinary Historian Adrian Miller joked at a lecture about barbecue and soul food.
Miller authored Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time which won a James Beard award, and most recently The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas (2017) which received a nomination for the 2018 NAACP Image Award.
He gave a lunchtime lecture on African American food traditions to an audience of over a hundred community members themed around “A Theology of Barbecue & Soul Food” at Upper House on Wednesday.