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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Hampton, Virginia: Hampton University Dorms
This campus is beautiful. It has nothing on Fordham University! It makes me wish I went there for undergrad…but I’m not excatly a water person so it’s all good.
Carlos
The Woman Who Made Scarlett O’Hara’s Hats
Mildred Blount was the ‘Milliner to the Stars!’
Road Pavement
STOP
Carlos
Slow
The 50th Holy Convocation Jubilee Cookbook
The Following is some of the introduction I wrote for the Jubilee Cookbook. They are still on sale at www.etsy.com.
From the sacrifice dinner to the Sunday dinner, food has become a part of the church’s history in fundamental ways.
From the Radio Helping Hand bake sells’ to the Young People Organization’s cook outs, food has helped the church to become a staple in the community.
From Western Beef and Family Dollar, to Jetro and Price Choice food has helped the community to make the right choice. Many saints have testified about their encounter with other saints in the food markets which eventually led them to hearing the Gospel.
From who’s cooking to what’s cooking, questions about food and the Holy Temple Church is never farfetched. It is normal to be asked if the church one attends is the one that sells food on the corner of East 180TH, just as it is normal to be asked if you attend the late Bishop Randolph Goodwin church.
From the late 1950’s, when the foundation of the Holy Temple Church began, until now, people have come from all across the world getting saved and eventually cooking for the church. So, it is no wonder that the church’s recipes are constantly passed down from the elderly saints to the young people, enforcing a greater sense of subculture-ness and family life into the church.
If one hasn’t tasted southern cooked food at home, there is a possibility one have tasted it at the church, if one hasn’t come across food from a local garden, there is a possibility one has eaten it at the church.
From the east coast to the west coast, the southern belt to the mid-west, the word of God has gone forth and brought people to the Headquarters’ temple. While the word and the true teachings of Jesus Christ have brought the people and kept the people spiritually, food has brought them together naturally.
The following recipes located in this book are some of the recipes that the saints have come across down through the years, either in the kitchen or at the dining table. Some of the recipes have been submitted by experienced cooks while others by experimental cooks but all are promising to be fulfilling.
Each submission is original and described in the cook’s best possible way.
May God forever bless your kitchen with his Love and your family’s laughter
Health Bucks Promotion
This past summer, I had the opportunity to take the Mary Mitchell students to La Familia Verde Farmers’ Market on East Tremont Avenue between La Fontaine & Arthur Avenues.
Every Tuesday I would explain to them the purpose of the Farmers Market and why they were being given an opportunity to shop for their families. Then, I would take out a stack of health bucks and explain that it was worth two dollars ($2) each and was developed and distributed by the NYC Health Department and can be used to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at all farmers’ markets in NYC.
When we arrive at the market, they would line up and get ten dollars ($10) each worth of Health Bucks and be allowed to freely walk around the market to shop. Usually I would take between 12 and 16 students and make sure they stick with their partners. They would walk around the market with anxious looks on their faces eager to buy foods they normally would not buy from the bodega.
Occasionally they would express their sentiments in not being able to buy something sweet so I would make sure I had enough money to but one piece of cake or a bag of mini sweets from Kevin and share distribute it out fairly. However, most of the time, they would buy peaches and blue berries and eat it right away. I always had to stop them from eating what they brought afraid that they would get a stomach ache.
Before the summer ended the students joined the local farmers, the director of the Mary Mitchell Center, Heidi Hynes, Council Member Ritchie Torres and others at a press conference held at the market to voucher for Health Bucks.
Major concerns were addressed like the diabetes rate among the elderly and children, the Bronx being the last county in New York State (among 62 counties) to eat, serve, and be served healthy food, and the importance of increasing access to fruits and vegetables for low-income residents.
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