The HIDDEN Legacy of Collard Greens
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- How did a plant originating from the Mediterranean become so beloved by black folks, Join us while we talk about the History of Collard Grreens
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My first time eating solid food was my grandmothers collard greens when I was about 9 months old. My mama said I spent the weekend with my grandparents eating baby food and after having collards that weekend I was done with baby food. R.I.P Grandma and Grandpa.😢
Thank God for grandma's. ❤
Collard greens is normally too strong for a baby's digestive system. You did well to handle it at that age, especially when you had not had regular food yet.
My grandmother did it with both of my boys. They have both been healthy strong lean athletes. And very happy too! It's gotta be the food!
@@GK-ku3zv,
The pot liquor and crushed cornbread. More than likely. My children Great Grandma did them the same way.
My grandma gave me collard greens around 2 or 3 years old, and she said I spit them out and I said they were good, and started hand feeding them to me with hot water cornbread.
As a half white/half Asian person raised in Hawaii in the 60s and 70s, I had never eaten collard greens until I moved to Philadelphia after high school and was taken under the wing of an amazing black lady who invited me to her home for a Thanksgiving supper. The delicious collard greens were served with ham, turkey, macaroni and cheese, and corn bread. She used ham hocks to season the greens that were so delicious that I think of her so often almost five decades later here in California when see and buy collards…. Part of the meal that was a gift of love and kindness. Thank you for bringing back these fine memories.
I'm from Philly. Glad that she gave that nice gesture of love through food to you. Happy Thanksgiving!
The swine is forbidden. Use something else.
@@PatriciaLucious-ll2vm I’m vegan now…. So it’s just the memories of my youth….
Amen
@@PatriciaLucious-ll2vm all things are good to eat as long as you give thanks
I am a basic, European white dude and I love collard greens. I am thankful for the creativity and skill that the black culture from all over the world has contributed to this dish and will forever be hoping for an invite to the cook out.
Whether in the "here and now" or the "here after" your invite to the cookouts is coming good sir!
Lol😂😅
... Splendidly Put Old Bean 🏴✌️🥪
Just for this cool and honest comment - you invited man! 👏🏾 Welcome. 🙏🏽
Why is it important that you say your white. We are all humans.
I love channels like this that teach culinary anthropology. Thank you for your work!
What do you like about it? Which parts do you agree and disagree with?🤓
@@giffysstiffy8874giffytuckhe said what he liked about and didnt say anything about what he did or did not agree with. Sit down goofball
I like your response, it shows u r not close-minded.
That’s why I travel the world with my mouth! 😂😊
Well, I'm another "old white lady" who loves collards. I got my first taste in the Army, in Georgia, and later collards were "survival food" during some poor and hungry times. One year in college I would buy a paper grocery bag full of them, to last a long time - just for me!
Now I cook collards on special days like Thanksgiving, to eat with turkey, cornbread, and sweet potato pie.
We love “old white ladies” too
nah u black like u may not got the melanin but u know the struggle, eat the food, respect the culture. Girl u invited to the cookout
I would like to try these . Used to eat dandelion greens as a kid
@@hexapodc.1973 Thank you.
Yes, you have to respect the culture. That's what makes the food taste even better! 🙂
another ole' white lady lovin' collard greens with a big piece of fat back! Green grower in Georgia!
As an African American, I was born and raised in the Gullah Nation on a sea island in South Carolina. My family grew both colored greens and turnip greens. I later learned about mustard greens which are also eaten by many African American families. Cooking colored greens and mustard greens together is a recipe I got from a woman I met from Jackson, Mississippi. The two greens mixed together make a delicious and tasty dish.
I watch several African content creators on CZcams and that's where I found out that some Africans do eat lots of different types of greens in their culture, especially in West Africa. Our ancestors from West Africa brought their love of greens with them to the Americas and passed it down to us.
Me too, Savanah GA/ Hilton head. .. Don't forget about the red rice with smoked sausage.
@@anitaartis9591 Yes. Red rice with smoked sausage is definitely one of the main dishes in the Gullah Nation and our West African cousins call it jollof rice!
My granny was from Arkansas she would use Collard and mustard greens mixed. They always came out so good. I keep up her tradition with adding mustard greens to my collards and turnip greens.
I love a well-mixed greens. Now I know why. Lol. I mix turnip, mustard, collard, spinach, and kale with smoked turkey tails ( it may be a chicago thing the smoked turkey tails) ma
@@donapoindstribbling2172 I'm not familiar with the smoked turkey tails but smoked neck bones is huge in my family for colored greens. I live in the southwest now where I can get fresh neck bones but smoked neck bones is not available. Grits wasn't available here until Walmart stores arrived! 😂
Thank you for this history of foods that fed our ancestors and continue to feed us our families
Your ancestors are more than 400 yrs. You mean your American history?
Pretty much fed everybody in the south specially, around Carolinas, Mississippi and Arkansas. They didn’t have to be black to eat them.
@@ThaRealBummyDavisMind your business and stop trying to police what people say! Who cares about that sh*thole racist american history!
@@stevenhall9349He’s talking about Black people right now!
Thanx for this history!!!!
I didn't realize how widespread historically collard greens were; I'd always thought they were mainly a Southern U.S. thing. Great educational video!
fakename2212 southern wasn't a thing before Trans-Atlantic Slavery. Ut was bought to America during slavery. Some of you are not very useful with the brain. The World didn't just start with white folk and racism polluting the globe.
Yep, I sure didn't know the ancient Greeks and Romans were eating them. Being from the American South, I so associate them with our culture and never gave much thought to their actual origin.
@@krisstarringsailors travel, so does their culture in food, music, art, etc. When the great migration of southerners went north they brought all that with them too.
And then when those factory jobs got shipped out they left the north and spread all across the west, southwest, and south. And again the food makes changes! It’s so exciting!
My father's side of my family is originally from a little tiny town called Kingstree South Carolina. They lived on a farm and have always grown their own foods and raised their own animals that they slaughtered and processed for meat themselves. They had chickens, hogs, beef, goats, etc... Whatever they didn't raise themselves, they had to go fishing, trapping, and hunting for.
My great grandmother moved to Washington DC in the late 40s early 50 to find employment and move my grandmother to the city with her once shexwas well established in her new home. My great grandmother didn't stop growing her own vegetables despite living in what has always been considered an urban area. My great grandmother has always lived in places that had a front and back yard where she could start her garden during the summer months.
She not only grew collard greens, she also grew her own curly kale greens, mustard greens, and turnip greens. We always had home grown tomatoes, bell peppers, hot chili peppers, turnips, rutabaga, green beans, yellow onions etc.. She would also plant flowering bushes in the yard like roses, and hydrangeas. We also had fresh mint bushes, basil, oregeno, thyme, and, green onions/chives in our yard. She would use natural pesticides like diatomaceous earth and hot pepper sprays, we composted our own fertilizers before it was the cool, hipster, conservationist thing to do. We.also used the waste water from cleaned and scaled fresh fish as a natural fertilizer as well. I miss being in the garden with her, and eating that fresh, all natural produce that aren't GMOs or altered by dyes, or poisonous pesticides that never wash completely off of your produce. Whatever we didn't use fresh from the garden was preserved and canned for use in the winter months when certain produce wasn't in season. We also grew berries and other fruits but it wasn't as easy to grow fruit in the soil in DC as it is to grow the vegetables. It's also more difficult to keep the urban wild life like raccons, pigeons, and squirrels out of your garden when there is sweet fruits for them to eat. They didn't bother the veggies too much at all, but we would be lucky if they left the fruits alone long enough for them to for them to ripen on the vine. Misty watercoloredmemories.... Hmmm😊.
Much love to Kingstree. My family is from Beaufort and moved to DC in the 70s.
Omg this is amazing! Did you take the craft from your great grandmother too? Like eventually have your own garden? I love hearing stuff like this
I loved reading about your family taking care of themselves. Reminded me of my Grandparents in Baltimore, circa 1960. I still have 3 massive vegetable gardens that we share with anyone. Growing and harvesting your own food just gets in your blood. Thanks for sharing!
@@honey77777 Great question! I hope they carried on.
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Great video. A black friend took me to Sylvia's restaurant in Harlem back in the early 90s, it was there that I discovered collard green. Loved it immediately because it tasted like and had similar texture to certain greens eaten by Koreans - I'm Korean - in stews and baanchan side dishes.
I'm Black American living in Suncheon, S. Korea. I've tasted some outstanding greens; especially in Seoul.
@@MrCJ-qz9dl I was born in Jollado, in the southwest, a region which is known to the culinary capital of Korea. Kale is used in Korean cooking, I think it's the green which comes closest to collard greens. Pumpkin leaves are also widely eaten by Koreans (as I'm sure you know) but it's a much softer leaf. Now I live in France. Korean restaurants are rather disappointing here, even in Paris. I have fondness for soul food from my one year lived in Alabama, right after my family emigrated to the US. Korean fried chicken is very similar to fried chicken invented by black Americans, and I've often wondered if the Koreans got that recipe from African American GI's stationed in Korea since the war. After Alabama, I grew up in a black neighborhood in Maryland right outside of DC, but I never tasted collard greens until Sylvia's in Harlem. Cheers, baang gaap ssum ni da.
I also see Asian people buying collards in the supermarket, not sure how they prepare them.
Love reading that experience!
I used to eat some delicious greens at a restaurant in Seoul near KONKUK and SEJEONG UNIVERSITIES.
I had metabolic issues and collards were my remedy along with taking walks and eating low carb. I eat collards every day.
Some of the best times growing up was in the kitchen picking and cleaning greens from our garden with my momma..RIP Katie Mae❤
Beautiful 🥰🌺
Yes indeed honey!!!!!
I like mustard greens, turnip greens with the turnip cooked in. I like. spinach. And i like the way my mother to fix swish.chard and pok salad. I'm not crazy about collard greens though.
I meant to say i like the way my mother used to fix swiss chard and pok salad.
We're starting a community garden at my church. We grew collards this year. They did very well. We got huge leaves. We've been harvesting for months. I consider collard greens a super food.
To me, Collard Greens mean Love.😊🥰
😊 Montgomery, AL born and bred. Ain’t nothing like scooping up a good bowl of greens and cornbread with your finger tips. ✌🏾#thegump #334 #dirtysouth #soulfood
I am a 70 year old white girl:) I was raised on collard greens and ham hocks. Oh with vinegar!! I am from the Deep South but it was amazingly friendly between any races where I lived. We weren’t segregated as far as me as a young kid could notice. I played with friends, no colour involved. I love my collard green exposure and the dish to this day.
I member once I was in line at store. Some ol white woman asked me "what u cookin" a lil soul food for moms. "Mmm mmm talking bout good eatn" I laughed
I don't like no black eye 👀 peas corn 🌽 bread etc. I luv burgers pizza tacos hot dog etc pasta salads spaghetti lasagna
Whites in The South know alot about black foods as The Slaves Used to Cook Them , Southern White girls love Grits and Cornbread as well lol .
Junk food
@@ernestinetodd7744 But Hot Dogs , Apple Pie , Cheeseburgers , And Pizza is healthy ? 😂 All well know American Foods Advertised daily .
I’m mixed and thankfully I grew up in Detroit in the 70-80’s and was able to learn soul food from my neighbors because my white mom couldn’t cook anything except beans and cornbread (literally). Soul food is comfort food…good for the soul!! 🥰
I grew up in Texas, and collard greens and fried chicken were just standard southern food. Thanks for telling the history! ❤
Yes, because the black women that worked in their homes for centuries cooked that food for their white families and passed down our culinary genius to them. Southern food is soul food.
I freaking love greens n smoked turkey. mmmmmmmMMMMMM. I appreciate learning more about its history too 💕
Omg but I love greens - collards and turnips especially. I grew up Asian in a black neighborhood with a Mexican stepfather so had some interesting fusion meals that I still make today. 😂 Korean miso collards, turnip greens with smoked turkey necks and pinto beans. It’s all good. ❤️
Hell yeah, make variations of all that with what I grow every year, greens in the spring and fall ...all year long in zone 9
I am black but growing up in LA most of my cooking is Soul Food and Mexican I noticed. Lol. I made Enchiladas with collard greens on the side. My mom said that doesn't go together. I said it does now. 😂
@@calionetime dude, I do the same with mustard and turnip greens, (garlic, olive oil, chicken stock), they go with everything!
Too damn cool!
Collard greens was rich in vitamin A and vitamin C which was good for the immune system!!
They still are 😂
@@Dee_nyce Right! 💯
When they aren’t loaded with salt 😭
Until they're loaded with salt, fatback, pork neck bones & whatever else we season it with .. Still eat dem though & making them on Thanksgiving.😊 With smoked turkey & a diet Coke to drink(Gotta stay healthy) 😉😉
@@kenyakimbrough7152😂😂😂
I just finished a bowl of collards left over from Christmas dinner I cooked. I was thinking to myself how absolutely delicious they were. After listening to your video I am filled with pride because of this another example of how we as a people overcame, survived and thrived. Thank you.
My family eats mostly mustard greens. But, we do sometimes eat collard greens. Our greens are cooked with smoked neck bones, with cornbread on the side. It's one of my favorite meals.
I like mine with ham hocks!
In the south, occasionally you see turnip greens which is kind of better than collards
We had all types of greens growing up 🆙 n Cali with my family from the south. I haven’t been able to find mustard greens in a long time. They are my favorite of the “greens” family! 😊❤ I too have those same memories as paulallen8495
@@ramencurry6672. I never really cared for turnips or turnip greens but they’d be at the table for n a regular rotation with other types greens and there 😊was no such thing as “I don’t like that” or “you don’t want that” at my house. After all “there were starving children in China”. Or “people in hell want ice water but they don’t get that either” ❤😊
Same my mom is from Louisiana and she always would say collard greens must be a Virginia thing because we eat mustard greens!
Great reminder of real American history
I do love greens, I make a 50/50 mix of turnips and mustard greens. I sautee them with onion and stewed smoked turkey legs. And yes, we have this with black eye peas on New years. Black folks had our African traditions and heritage stolen from us, so we often make our own traditions. That's why you see black culture changing so much because we're still in the process of creation.
I cook it the same way, except with kale rather than collard.
Now don't get to talking all that mess about your greens if you not going to invite me over for some,shit I got hungry just by reading how you cook your greens
Yassss!! That's the best way to do it 💯
Gm edagdwg God blessed us with a forever loving food greens are soooooo good with corn bread and pot slad is soooooo much love for greens linda j. Peace
I do this mixture as well. However when cooking for a large group of people I cook Collards because they are easier to clean.
Collard greens are a staple in East Africa. In Kenya they go by “kale”, but in the UK kale is used moreso in reference to curly kale (similar taste). Either way I love collard greens!
I also find it interesting that we (Africans & AA) both pair it with a corn based side. We eat it with ugali made from maize (white corn) flour.
I had collard greens in TX at a soul food spot in Dallas. Love that Americans add bacon and seasoning to it. That’s pretty interesting
It's a staple in East, Central and Southern Africa
In America we really consider kale greens well my family and state don't we use that when we don't have enough
@CrystalsT...I cook my collard greens, with smoked turkey wings.
Thanks for sharing
No it's an American dish collard greens it part of the cabbage.
I mix my Collards, Turnips, beet leaves, Mustard, swiss chard, and Dinosaur Kale... And mince the stems (which most toss, but holds the most nutrients...
Steam my collards first, so they cook evenly with other Greens, saute with minced stems, quick broil smoked turkey legs with cyan & brown sugar, then prepare as usual in vegetable stock ( no need for salt)...
For vegan style, I substitute the smoke Turkey leg with Tofurkey & add liquid smoke to Greens...❤❤❤❤❤❤
No additional salt required at all❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Brown sugar curves the bitterness and apple cider vinegar provides the punch😂😂😂😂
And the prep time is way shorter...
Tip... For brussel sprout bitterness, add an apple sliced or diced, and for red cabbage... Add molasses (black strap) & brown sugar , but just a small amount...
For a quick green cook, slice your greens like coleslaw & sauteed (simple healthy week night cook)
I like a Lil stem too adds texture
I bet that mix is delicious
I know you not putting those tender beet leafs w those
The vinegar doesn't make it bitter?
Yes shredded collards cook way faster when sautéed ❤❤
I like the vids because they’re not biased to one side.. just history and facts
Same 🥰
My thoughts exactly. ❤
Talking about Collard Green definitely made me want some 😊👍🏾👍🏾
I had my first collard greens with a Saturday night church supper chicken dinner. We white folks grew up without knowing anything about southern soul food. Spinach is the closest green we had to Collards. I learned to enjoy turnip greens and mustard greens. My uncle had a grocery store in a black neighborhood. We worked late on Saturday bight and he treated his employees to the local AME church supper. You really get to know and understand other people when you sit down and break bread in fellowship with them.
Now, turnip greens are pretty good too! Terrific you had that experience.
Thank you so much for sharing this video with us !
Absolutely 🎯
This guy will give you the true knowledge and power of our people !! @sosolinha_yt
My mouth is watering. 😊
I love collards especially my moms collards in her long collard green pot with her fresh Turkey necks , and her fresh ham hocks
I love your honest and accurate history of collared greens…Thank you.
I work as a chef by trade, and I love greens. They taste delicious and they are very good for you in nutrients. I was introduced to them from my friends growing up here in NJ, and many of my friends are from the Deep South, and they brought the recipes from their loved ones with them from their childhood homes.
Though I am African American I don't care for collard greens but I do remember sitting in the kitchen or in the backyard picking and cleaning them with my grandmother. The kitchen was where all the grownups gathered to chew the fat lol or get the best gossip so I didn't mind sitting at the table picking the green and listening in. You bought back some good memories for me. Thank you.
I thought it was just me. I don't like them either.
People used to look at me strangely when I would say that . Just because we are black does not mean that we have to like everything that African Americans like. Lol I don't like rap music either to me it is just people talking fast while having temper tantrums and spewing nonsense, but to each his/her own.
So … I’m not alone? LOL I never liked them. When I was a teenager, I had a friend who LOVED them. Every time she brought it up, I said they tasted like leaves. Two years later, she called me on Thanksgiving, yelling at me. All she tasted was “leaves” when she ate them, and it was my fault! 😂😂
Lol You put it in her mind When you are little you get programmed into eating and liking what grownups tell you to like. You were probably the first person that told her that you didn't like them and it got her to think about it.or maybe they didn't cook them right.😂
In the south you sometimes see turnip greens which in my opinion is better
Nothing better than fried chicken, collards and mac & cheese.
You did a great job.
Happy Holidays!
The first time I ate collard greens was when my roommate invited me to her family's house for thanks giving. Ever since than I'm hook to the soul food staple. I love it. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I am white, and I LOVE collard greens in soups. They give a smoky, wonderful taste to so many bean soups. I always add a pound of collards to the vegetables in a good soup.
Amen. Thank You for Appropriately Explaining the Significance of Collard Greens🖤
Being cooking with Collard greens for years. Thanks for the history lesson
Great video! As an old white lady from NJ and Philadelphia I am crazy for collard greens. However, I didn't have a chance to eat them untill I worked as a nurse at a Philadelphia hospital where there were many African Americans. I can't believe I didn't know about this sooner. I tried to make them but didn't know how. Thank you for instructions I will definitely try again.
BTW, My fathers family from a coal mining town in WV cooked some mean fried chicken. My mother had a recipie that I use today. Thank again for a great video. Oh, one more thing, I had fantistic greens at a Peruvian local resturant.
No need to share that you are older, a woman, or white. Collard greens are for anyone!
Being from West Va, I know you know. Some people garnish with vinegar, "try white lighting instead." Yummy Mercy Yummy.
Thoroughly clean, then cut the stem to butterfly the greens, do a quick hot water 30 second par boil of each green, cool the greens, squeeze out the excess water, and use a wrap (kind of like a burrito shell) fill with whatever you like. Examples, sandwich filling, burrito filling, breakfast scramble fillings, etc. This is next level, delicious and healthy.
Watch out for green worms.
@@thadevilzadvocate extra protein...worms don't negate all the health benefits
I love to make this with mushrooms, onions, and garlic inside.
@thadevilzadvocate That's why they have to be cleaned well, like everything we consume.
This guy will give you the true knowledge and power of our people !! @sosolinha_yt
Collards are quite possibly the most delicious leafy greens on earth. They are incredibly flexible, but they take especially well to being simmered with smoked pork products like ham or hocks. At our farmers market they sell these big, beautiful three-foot bunches of collards just out of the ground.
Nothing beats a big pot of Collard greens, with that good pot liquor for dipping cornbread in,lol. Don't forget the Ham hocks.
YES!!!!!
You don't have to be black to love greens. I like mine with LOTS of smoked pork jowls or fatback to put a good shine on them. I even eat the stems. After chopping them finely, I add to the pot with the leaves. The homemade from-scratch cornbread (Jiffy NOT allowed) and some of that pot likker...yummy!
I just planned my dinner menu. Fried chicken, rice and gravy, collard greens, cornbread, and sweet tea. Sweet potato pie for dessert. Anybody hungry? 😊
Address, please. I got the poundcake. 😊
@mothertwinkles4198 I'm at 123 Marshall Rd. Hazel has been kicked to the curb! 😊
If there's any possibility you're as old as I am, you get it. Bring that lovely poundcake over. We're gonna get busy 💞
What time is supper? I can bring an extra skillet of cornbread, no sugar, and absolutely no Jiffy!
@rhondalight70 No sugar 💞
It's 2:22pm for me. Can we make it 7? We should all be really hungry by then.
Wow! This is turning into a group thing. I love it! Anybody got some last-of-the-season tomatoes and cucumbers? What a feast!
Me Me, and I will bring the homemade wine!!!
Collard greens and okra literally touch my soul, heart and tongue like nothing else. I visited Benin West Africa and our Chef made bitter greens! 😭 I wish I could have brought them with me. I ate them everyday I was there.
Very few people will eat boiled okra but I love it in green beans.
Good collard greens, a good version of fried okra and rice is so satisfying that I would not really miss chicken or beef if it didn’t come with it
The chef can't cook collard greens right
I liked collard greens when I was a kid, but when Mr. Tyrone Bully introduced me to the fruit of his momma's collard greens recipe 3 decades ago, my like transcended to love. I've been chasing that flavor ever since, but I haven't found it anywhere else. Bully's Restaurant is still going strong in Jackson, Mississippi. If you love yourself and your family, you should stop in and experience the love for yourself.
Friend, if I'm ever in Mississippi, I'll go out of my way to go try Bully's. Thanks for the tip!
I absolutely love collard greens. I tried making them (I'm not Black, so I never grew up learning how to cook them), and they came out terrible, lol. My best friend's late Momma (a Black lady originally from Shreveport, LA) made the bestest, most bomb diggity collards ever. YUM!
Thank you for sharing some of this history that goes further back than what I was aware of. My most direct experience was from Great Grandparents, who were married at 14/15 (or 13/14) and were alive until I was in late teens. That side of the family dates back to 1822, farmers from England in North Florida. By the time I was around much of that side of the family had migrated down to the SW Gulf Coast where I grew up and then they went further south and bought a large Mango Grove. Prior to that they had grown watermelons, sugar cane, other row crops. The family hunted too so, collard greens (with ham hocks) okra, black eyed-peas, cornbread, venison, etc. all on the menu. Not sure what connections they may have had with the black community in early 1800's (never heard of any slave relations) but they shared that N. Florida Georgia area as farmers so it's cool how the common foods weave through the history......among the dark parts of the era. Interestingly enough, one of the other side of the family migrated down from Tenn (both Irish and Sicilian) and 5 generations in Florida and although they had Italian Restaurant still grew at home and could make great collards too. I design farms and other outdoor land projects & structures so enjoy good collards to this day! Thanks again for sharing this history about collars and good soul food.
Amen!
Not only Blacks love collard greens! Yum!
Lordy mercy, I am so hungry now after this description of the wonderful foods I love ❤️
Me too 😂
I love this history of collard greens in the North America. My Indian grandfather and grandmother when they came to Canada would use collard greens in much of their Indian cooking because of the health benefits. They grow in northern india and were used with spinach as good, green vegetables used in so man dishes, including saag.
I’m just enjoying how classy and respectfully dressed my people were in these photos. I love us 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you for this video! My mom's family is from Northern Georgia, and I grew up with all the delicious foods you mentioned! Also I love cornbread in a bowl with buttermilk! Miss you mama! Oh and I am also another old white lady! 😂
Thank you for this wonderful history lesson. My family loves collards and kale. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for this because we need hold to our traditions. It seems it been a big effort to put them down because they empower us
Thank You so much for this Awesome Black History Information. 😊
SO wonderful for our history to be portrayed in such a positive light as it should! I am going to cook me a pot of greens this week! And, yes we do cook them in a healthier manner now. Still delicious cooked low and slow......Yummy! Mrs. C. Lee
I have a cherished Aunt who grows collards greens all over her yard, both front and back. If she isn't growing them, we both get them from our local produce pantry. I hand mine over to her, she gives them back to me blanched, seasoned, with smoked meat, and freezer ready. I have a ton of collards in my freezer. ❤
Awesome. One of my earliest memories isof my Nana teaching me to clean and cook collard greens.
Collard Greens are my favorite! Viva Collard Green! Amen-Ra-Ankh-Ase!
The one side dish that’s on the menu every Sunday in the south whether it’s at mom and pop restaurant, country buffet, or somebody house. You will find it somewhere. Trust me!😂
Yes indeed
I'm so glad you are doing this work, Countryboi Mike
Our grand/ parents grew collard greens in their garden & cooked large pots of them & served them with cornbread to feed large families . The pot liquor was mixed with cornbread & fed to children as one of their first meal when being weaned from milk . "That's true surviving right there !"
I never liked collard greens but moms made them every year on New Year’s Day. She was so happy to make it for me and my siblings and we ate it out of respect to her.
This is so beautiful and educational, great history of our past and present life style. 😊
I love collards. The "frost" just hit, and my friend is getting me some collards. I love turnips, mustard, kale, and swiss chard greens.
Lastly, we have a rich history in America, and we should embrace it. We should also stop being swayed by every doctrine that comes our way.
Couldn't help but laugh at the excitement in your voice when it got to that cornbread and that pot liq😂😂😂. I was like "yeah.. he a professional at this like myself" 😅
It ain't just black folks who love collard greens! I love me some collard greens!
My mother was born deep in the bayou in the 1930s. The first time she heard of collard greens was when she moved to NY. Growing up, they ate mustard and turnip greens. There are a lot of regional forms of black American cooking, not just one thing.
And yet my German-origin family enjoyed endive, a bitter green, equally as well. Very similar. Wilted endive (wilted by pouring the hot bacon drippings on it after adding in the bacon), one of the best memories I have of my grandmother.
Right turnips mustard are also
Soul Food love them all
Yes same ! My mom is from Louisiana and we live in Virginia and she always says collard greens is a virginia thing so I've always ate mustard greens and that's what I prefer.
I grew up during the 1960's in rural Alabama. My family is white but we ate what is referred to as "soul food". We grew all our vegetables and always had collards in the garden. I still love them. Pot likker over cornbread can't be beat.
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It's not referred to it IS!!! 🤡🙄
I adore greens my Mama was raised in NC so I was raised on collards and turnip greens
First encountered collard greens when I moved from Jamaica to Georgia to attend University….loved it…..was surprised to find that the stalk attached to turnips were also cooked n eaten..we didn’t do that in Jamaica…grew to love turnip greens..fell in love with black-eyed peas n so many other Black American culinary dishes….even with the ingredients we shared, the difference in preparation was a new delight….red beans n rice is called stewed peas with rice in Jamaica…we add ‘spinners’ to our preparation…spinners r tiny dumpling made from flour n rolled btwn the palms of the hands to achieve an elongated shape…tossed into the almost cooked red beans to aid in the thickrning of the gravy….ate grits for the first time n to this day, love it
Jamaicans call this Callaloo.
A lot of people love collard greens. It’s just Black people cook it so well lol 😂. And they are delicious.
Collard Greens are so healthy and delicious! One can prepare them easily in healthy ways. I like to simmer mine in vegetarian Pho broth with other vegetables.
Im a Pacific Islander and am addicted to collard greens especially with smoked ham hocks or smoked turkey tails. So much that I eat it 3 times a week. Soooo good
As a Cook Islander we eat very well ,
Lucky that we can rely on good crops ,and fish !!
Hey, I'm white and love collards! I cook them with salt pork, bacon grease, onions and ham bits! Yummy! I even wrote a song back in 1983 and it became the theme song for the Ayden Collard Festival in NC.
Great video! Thank you for sharing this! I love collard greens, and I believe that good food is good food, regardless of it's cultural or ethnic origin. But it's always good to also know the "back story", and this is so much richer than I had known or thought before. Again, thank you for sharing!!
If people would give it a shot and get over that initial smell when they start cooking, they’d find they love em too.
Keep these coming. Rich history and best food
Love stories like this! Thank you for sharing.
I'm from a poor white family in Eastern Virginia. We ate the very same food the black family down the road does. I grew up eating collard greens mixed with turnips and greens.fat back and salt pork, My mother always had a cup of bacon grease on the back of the stove. My point is we all have blood pressure and or diabetes. Our eating habits are killing us. There's nothing romantic about early death. I asked my adult son if he could Find a tub of lard. He said I must finally be losing it, I told him that the grocery store in the black area still sells it.
They are coming out now saying they were wrong (lied) about the seed oils being healthier. Olive oil still is, and butter, but lard (including bacon grease) and tallow are full of fat soluble vitamins and lower in cholesterol. Plus the process to make a lot of the seed oils involves dangerous chemicals to make them non poisonous. What?
Yeah, I'll take butter, olive oil, lard, bacon grease, and tallow any day over that crap. Tonight's menu includes fried chicken in lard, collards w smoked turkey, hominy, and mashed potatoes! Ohhh...maybe some cornbread too! Yum!
@_CAMEOtrue
Collard Greens are a comfort food. Especially for those who were raised on them. Collard Greens were a plant that grew wild at one time, and were one of the plants poor families could forage and cook and make a good hearty soup/vegetable, for a much needed meal. We ate them with fried potatoes and cornbread, and in the summertime, sliced tomatoes on the side, Mmm!!!
They are also cooked together with Turnip Greens and the whole Turnips all you in one pot. Bacon, or Hamhocks are really good cooked in them also!! I assure you, there isn't a better meal around anywhere!!
ANOTHER PLANT IS POKE SALAD. THEY ARE ALSO ANOTHER WILD PLANT THAT GREW WILD AND I REMEMBER MOTHER TELLING ME HOW SHE AND HER SIBLINGS WOULD GO OUT EVERYDAY A PICK THEM FOR SUPPER. LOL, I USE TO CALL HER POKE SALAD ANNIE!! SHE WOULD COOK THEM UP WITH SCRAMBLED EGGS IN THEM! THEY GREW WILD ON THEIR FARM THERE IN MAUMELLE ARKANSAS. LAYER THEY MOVED TO CONWAY ARKANSAS.
Wow, I didn't know we LOVE them...Thanks for the education..
My dear friend Isaiah Collins.. God rest his soul.. he was from Mississippi and he thought me how to make them.. he was truly an amazing soul. Oh.. and a butter cake to die for..
Love me some collards 👶 😊
I am one of the only black people (that I know of) who does not like collard greens. I grow them in my garden every year for my mom. I also feed them to my chickens, turkeys, and pigs. They love them. I prefer to grow them in the GA fall and winter. Fewer bugs to fight with. Plus my mom says they are tougher in the summer heat and more tender during the colder months.
“Clean you out” lol!!!! 💛💛💛💛
I don’t like them either but I’m the minority in my family lol❤
Lol! I'll eat them if they are put on my plate but I don't request them. I'll eat them first to get them out of the way. 😂
I don't like collards,but eat other greens
You’re not the only one. They’re overrated!
@@jayrobinson3556 Same here. If I see them on a buffet, I'll usually ask if they're collards, turnips, or mustard. If they're collards, I'll pass them by. If they're turnip or mustard, I'll eat them.
I'm so glad that you posted this story. I never knew the story behind these. It was a good story. I love collard greens. I try make them all the time.
Thank you so much for the information!!
Some of you are missing the point of this video and are so ready to say, "I'm not black, and I grew up eating collard greens." He not one time said the only people who can like or eat collard greens are black. He even said the views on collard greens have evolved. He is simply explaining the connection between the food and OUR history. Sheesh!
One has to know how to cook them and season them and also turnips,mustards,and cabbage. Everybody can not cook them!!
Facts!
If you mess up cooking greens ya need to get out of the kitchen because that stuff is insanely easy to cook.
You got that right, lol.😂
Fantastic historical information. Much needed, and appreciated.
I have never heard about Collard greens until i came to the States. In Jamaica we have Callaloo so I do d collard greens similarly with corned pork or cod fish.
Preping some now w/ sweet potatoes ❤
2 of my favorite foods ❤❤
That's what I call good eating 😋.
Good yummy
and two of the healthiest, most wholesome foods. well, depending on how you prepare them =)
Got a news flash for you white people also love collard greens I like a little vinegar on mine
Thank you African America for this beautiful food. Thank you for sharing it with the rest of us. It's a comfort food for my soul.
I'm white and I grew up eating collards, mustard and turnip greens, fatback, and cornbread. Not just black people eat them. To us, this was just Southern cooking.
100 % true great content family I want to add that our forefathers and our ancestors brought Foods recipes from West Africa and Kenya they still eat green types with their dishes in West Africa and in Kenya in other parts of Africa we took the cornmeal that they make in Africa with their meals it's either ugali cormeal or yam casaba we took the cornmeal and made it into cornbread to sop it up what our dinner dishes in America Traditions brought from Africa
Sorry but most American Negros are not West Africans! You can keep your African National Imperialism Colonization to yourself. We, American Negros have our own soulful culture, soul foods, people, soul music, stories of our ancestors, creativity, discoveries, customs, and accomplishments. We do appreciate other people's culture out of respect and we will never appropriate their culture as ours, yet ours is always appropriated, disrespected, and up for grabs by everybody! This is why we must remove ourselves from this Colonization of Afrocentric Imperialism in order to ensure the protection of our descendants, the importance of knowing and celebrating, who they are and where they really originated from. BTW It ain't Africa either!
@ou8r122 None of that matters in 2023 when you don't have strong family units, relationships, two parent homes, a knowledge of procreation or economic understanding based on production. Black American culture in the present only means self destruction.
@@alphonsomorris793 and you're right this is why we're waking up to our true Heritage and we keeping the Commandments and statues of the Father in heaven so we get our Unity back and our love back for each other and get our planet back and all you heathens Europeans is going into captivity and slavery you're going to serve the children of Israel the real children of Israel and all you hamites who sold the children of Israel to the European caucasians in Spanish people you're going into captivity as well
Black people (and white people) love collard greens because they are smart folks.
Happy Thanksgiving, ya'll from GA.
Excellent video 👍👏. Thanks for posting😊
Just awesome! White or Black, southerners have loved greens for centuries. The narrator made the point that collards over-winter better than the other greens. The old joke was that if you lived in North Carolina, you had to have collards in your garden in the winter and black-eyed peas in the summer or you wouldn't go to heaven when you died.....
STOP ALWAYS INCLUDING WHYTE PEOPLE WITH BLAQ FOLKS IM TIRED OF THAT HELL NO WE BLAQ PEOPLE ARE CULTURAL WHYTE PEEPO ARE NOT
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