Cooking Demonstration: FREE. Meal Donation: $50 (only 50 tickets available)
Food historian Clarissa Clifton and Chef Cheryl Henry will prepare a full meal outdoors over an open pit, as was done during slavery. Guests are welcome to observe the eight-hour preparation and stay for dinner to be served at 5 PM. The menu is as follows: Appetizer: Hoe Cakes served with Strawberry Preserves and Crème Fresh on top. Entrée; Hoppin’ John with Smoke Bones, Roasted Chicken cooked over saplings, Greens with ham hocks, salt fish with peas and rice, and roasted beets.. Desert: Homemade Pies. During the day, guests may also tour the Slavery Exhibits in the Willow Hill Museum.
Join Food Historian Clarissa Clifton as she brings history to life during one of her culinary demonstrations at Roswell's Archibald Smith Plantation Home (935 Alpharetta Street, right next to City Hall). On the menu today is an authentic one-pot jambalaya! Here's the recipe! No open hearth at your house? No problem.