El Fogón: Afro Woman and Traditional Cuisine
In this conversation, we will be sharing with two fantastic afro women who have made food their center of reflection and life: Caridad Brito Ballesteros and Manu Nascimiento.
From El Fogón, the center of Afro cuisine, Caridad and Manu will be talking about the creative capacity and resistance of Afro-women to keep their cultures and traditions alive and to support their families and communities. The spiritual connection with food and the Afro preparation techniques, Afro rituals, preservation of ancestral memory, and cultural resistance converge in this conversation. Caridad will be speaking from her research experience and work for the cultural preservation and visibilization of the culinary traditions of the elders of her community and Manu from her immigration experience that have led her to reconnect with her cultural culinary heritage. Both experiences make El Fogón, a genuine cooking space for Afrodiasporic food sovereignty.
We look forward for you to join this conversation!
Panelists
Caridad is Afro-Guajira, adoptive and protected daughter of the Colombian La Guajira, a historian from the National University of Colombia and Master in Cultural Management from the University of Barcelona (Spain). She currently works as a professor at the University of La Guajira. Since 2017, she has been a researcher in the ‘Rescate de Sabores del Caribe’, projects that seek to strengthen local identity and knowledge of guajira traditions.
Manu is Afro-Brazilian from the city of Salvador de Bahia and currently lives in Seattle. She is a social worker and founded her own food business, ‘Tempero de Mainha’, to share her ancestral culinary tradition and love for cooking with anyone who wants to taste her mom’s dishes.
