feedthemalik
Mar 1, 2022
Updated: Jun 11, 2022
One of the most common requests I've received in the past few months is to bring back the old podcast I had with my friend KJ Kearney of Black Food Fridays. Our Fix Your Plate Podcast focused on food and beverage through our eyes, two Black creatives just trying to figure out our place in the food creator space, make our work sustainable, and learn some dope shit along the way. We wanted to keep it going, but couldn't without the support of our now-defunct podcast network - which provided the editing and support for us to produce Fix Your Plate. If we truly wanted to commit to making our work more sustainable we couldn't keep it going weekly for free.
That's where you come in. It didn't click at first when folks started asking about the podcast that I did have a space where I could continue to work on a project like Fix Your Plate with support. . . right here in Magic at the Margins! After that much-delayed lightbulb moment, KJ has agreed to debut a monthly almost reboot of our old podcast here exclusively for members. On it, we will chat about all things food and beverage, dig into our hot takes, showcase the behind-the-scenes of our work, and answer all of your questions.
So this week, I'm excited to introduce, Conversations With Anela & KJ!
Episodes will be shared as video and captioned for accessibility, though feel free to ignore the video and listen to it as a podcast if that works better for you.
Take care,
Anela
#VideoDescription - Anela & KJ sit and chat on a video call recording about what is most exciting to us in the food and beverage space right now, from the ‘state of snackhood’ to exploring Indigenous foodways in the United States. We also dig into our predictions for food and beverage, sneak peeks into our own upcoming projects, and, our hot takes on gatekeeping Blackness in the digital space.
Last week's cocktail class was so fun! We made this Chai Gold Rush and the Boozy Ghee Hot Chocolate, both recipes from The Tash Mashup. I'll be making the gold rush especially for many weeks to come.
Virtual Cooking Class: March 16th at 6 PM CST, 7 PM EST – Join me and Chef Taffy Elrod and learn to make Lentil Shepherd's Pie! Register at the link above. Taffy Elrod is a chef, cooking instructor, and food writer with a passion for making good food accessible to everyone. She has been cooking and teaching in New York for over 20 years. In 2015 she and her husband opened a pizzeria in the Hudson Valley, where they built a dedicated following for their thin crust pizza and homestyle cuisine. Unfortunately, like many restaurant owners, they were forced to close their doors in 2020.
Book Talk & Virtual Baking Class with Cheryl Day: April 7th at 6 PM CST, 7 PM EST – Join me and extraordinary Southern baker Cheryl Day for a combined book talk and baking class. We will discuss her new cookbook, Cheryl Day's Treasury of Southern Baking, called "the definitive book on Southern baking" by Bon Appetit, and learn to make biscuits together. Cheryl is a dear friend, James Beard-nominated baker and co-founder of Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, Georgia. She's the great great grandaughter of a skilled enslaved pastry cook, author of multiple bestselling cookbooks along with her husband Griffith, and one of the cofounders of Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice, a collective to raise funds and provide resources for Black-owned food businesses.
In the last few weeks, social media content focused on race, history, and culture -- all content I would not be able to create without you and this community -- has done really well for Feed The Malik. The Arkansas video series has reached almost one million people (933k at last count). Subsequent videos on small minority-owned businesses, culture, and history on IG and TikTok have reached an additional 219,754 people in just two weeks. That means altogether more than a million folks were prompted to think deeper, consider a new part of history, or learn about a new small business from my work!