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The Great Migration: Carrying Southern Food North

The Great Migration — the movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the American South to the urban North between 1910 and 1970 — was simultaneously a demographic, social, and culinary event. The specific foods of the rural South (fried chicken, collard greens, sweet potato pie, black-eyed peas, cornbread, hot sauce) travelled north with the people who made them and transformed the food cultures of Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, New York's Harlem, and Los Angeles. The migration created the urban African American food culture that is now recognised globally.

The Great Migration as a culinary route.

AFRICA TO AMERICA — SLAVE TRADE CULINARY ROUTES: DEEP CONTINUATION

Lebanese emigrant cooking routes (same mechanism — migration carries cooking traditions), Jewish Ashkenazi migration to New York (same immigrant food culture establishment), Irish immigration and corn