This month's episode dispels three popular myths about Black food.

The guest is Dominique Charles, founder of Plots and Pans, and fab creator of edible gardens!

Dominique takes a break from visiting the Today Show and consulting aspiring gardeners to chat with us about:

• Soul food vs Black food vs Southern food
• Is Black food unhealthy?
• Is Black food just the descendant of the scraps enslavers left for Blacks?

Sources:

High on the Hog by Jessica B. Harris

Eating While Black by Psyche A. Williams-Forson

The Gift of Southern Cooking by Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock

Meals, Music and Muses: Recipes from My African-American Kitchen by Alexander Smalls and Veronica Chambers

Recommendations:

Cook Out: Recipes and Tips for the Great Outdoors by Rashad Frazier

This is an All Ears episode about the Free Breakfast Program for School Children with co-host, 7 year old Naz.

The Black Panther Party is known for a lot of things, but how much do we know about the Free Breakfast Program that inspired a nation to feed its poorest citizens breakfast?

Hear the UnderTold history of this program and it's lasting impact.

Kid-Friendly Sources here:

1. Kids Meet Former Black Panthers (video)

2. Five Things to Know About the Black Panthers (video)

For Parents (also check out the Adult Episode preceding this one!)

1. Power Hungry by Suzanne Cope (book)

2 . Service to the People (free online book)

Did you know that the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program provided grits and eggs for kids in the 70's that inspired our government to provide over 2 BILLION breakfasts for students today?

Sources:

Videos

1. No Kid Hungry Discussion on Free Breakfast Movement

2. 1969 Special Project: Black Panthers Feed the Children

Books

1. Power Hungry Women of the Black Panther Partyand Freedom Summer and their Fight to Feed a Movement by Suzanne Cope

2. To Die for the People by Huey Newton

3. The Black Panther Party: Service to the People edited by David Hilliard by the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation

Articles

1. Breakfast: a Good Habit, not a repetitive custom. In the Journal of International Medical Research. In 2008.

2. Breakfast is most important meal (BBC)

3. Sorry, There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast y Aaron E. Carroll

4. Black Past: Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program (1969-1980)

5. Black History Month: Celebrating the Origins of Free Breakfast and the Food Justice Movement on NoKidHungry.org

6. Fact Sheet on School Breakfast Program by No Kid Hungry

7. Nonviolence Project on Free Breakfast for Children: Nonviolent Legacies of the Black Panther Party

8. The Greenwood Food Blockade by Southern Foodways Alliance

9. African American Intellectual Historic Society: The Black Panther Party and the Free Breakfast for Children Program

10. Solid Ground: Radical History of the Free Breakfast Program

11. Wikipedia: School Breakfast Program