SILVER SPRING, MD – Michael Twitty, a local author
who combines his love of history and cooking in interactive presentations, will
run a cooking demonstration and food-foraging hike at Oakley Cabin on Saturday,
May 12. The demonstration runs from 1 to 3 p.m. and is open to the public.
Twitty’s presentation is sponsored by The Friends of Oakley
Cabin & The Underground Railroad and the Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
Twitty wrote Fighting Old Nep: The Foodways of Enslaved
Afro-Marylanders, 1634-1864.
His cooking emphasizes heirloom varieties and wild foods to
re-enact the historical experience of enslaved and free blacks. Weather
permitting, Twitty will lead a walk looking for edible wild plants after
cooking at the Oakley Cabin hearth.
Twitty has given presentations on African American and
Jewish food traditions at museums and historic sites throughout the Washington,
D.C., area.
For more information on Oakley Cabin, including directions, go to http://www.mc-mncppc.org/historic/sites.shtm or
call (301)
258-4044.
WHO:
Author and cultural expert Michael Twitty
WHAT:
African-American Foodways Demonstration
WHEN:
1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 12
WHERE:
Oakley Cabin, 3610 Brookeville Rd., Brookeville, MD