“What I learned about cooking and food through my family is the importance of women and the survival of food traditions and simply to have the patience to learn, memorize, and balance flavor to create a beautiful dish.”
“What I learned about cooking and food through my family is the importance of women and the survival of food traditions and simply to have the patience to learn, memorize, and balance flavor to create a beautiful dish.”
What started as “one giant hunk of pork” turned into a taste testing for a group of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga students.
On Thursday, March 31 at 5:30 p.m., the UTC History Department and Africana Studies Program welcome special guests Adrian Miller, James Beard Award winner, and Kenyatta Ashford, Chef at Chattanooga’s Neutral Ground, for A Conversation about Black Cuisine. This will be a conversation-style event moderated by Nicole Brown, a community leader and award-winning producer.
A culinary historian presents an exploration of bacon – its history, social status, concerns about health, and much more.
Mark Johnson likes bacon. He has always had an interest in history, too. In “Food and Southern History,” Johnson, a lecturer in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of History, gets to combine those passions.
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Johnson, lecturer in the UTC Department of History, on the publication of his book Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932 (University Press of Mississippi, 2021).
The Africana Studies Program invites you to participate in this semester’s Lunch Talk Series showcasing Faculty Research. Dr. Mark Johnson, UTC Department of History, presents Slimming Down Soul Food: A Study of African American Cookbooks. Monday, February 8, 2021, 12:00-1:00, Zoom.
Highlights from Mocs Move Forward: A Discussion and Application of Diversity in Healthcare with Dr. Julia Cummiskey and Dr. Mark Johnson.
Mocs Move Forward 8/31: A Discussion and Application of Diversity in Healthcare with Dr. Julia Cummiskey and Dr. Mark Johnson
See student reactions and highlights from the simulation workshop that showed the impact of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment between 1932-1972 and taught students about racism in the medical profession.
History Department faculty Susan Eckelmann Berghel, Mark Johnson, and Mike Thompson, as well as their students, were featured in a new video that provides an overview of the UTC College of Arts & Sciences.
