Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/21/2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
Paschalville Library
Categories
Sample benne wafers, a traditional African cookie, at The African Influence on American Food. Learn all about the history of African cuisine in America from activist and longtime chef Valerie Erwin. She will present a more nuanced version than the popular notion of the “soul food.” Explore dishes unchanged from the continent, those adapted to accommodate new ingredients and environment, mixed in with new fare invented in the Americas.
Chef Valerie will treat you to a homemade African dessert from the Low Country, the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, where her grandparents were born. Free but register, 2 p.m. EST. Paschalville Library, 6942 Woodland Ave. 215-685-2662 or https://libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/black-history-month or https://libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/event/163132r