How to pronounce “okra” in English

also a healthy oil and uh a third oneokra I love okra okra is one of those ingredients as um uh the black IPS forinstance that came to Americas through the slave trade as well from West Africa

Louisiana Cuisine Like Jambalaya gumbo gumbo as M of fact is a word in wof forfor okra you know it's the in the French they call it gbo but they had that from from obviously from the W of world wofis the main language in Sagal so gumbo uh I was saying which is okra which is

okay make sure it is what it is um so a really kind of simple tomatoum and okra shrimp dish that was shown To Us by um florita Alves who is one ofthe ambassadors of macines Cuisine um to the world she goes lots of different

Figure out what they're worth, but the key is you can't give them back something of the exact same value of what they just gave you.So that okra's worth three shillings.Give them something worth two shillings or give them something worth four shillings.

you hear them cooking and chopping and they're like seven and nine so it's like okay that's good you know they'll eat awhole mess of okra and greens and stuff like that so it's good they you know but that type of uh sort of food recognitionand Consciousness needs to be everywhere I mean they go to a school where this is the reality ity of our situation in

Okra comes into the culture from Africa.The same dish is prepared with okra.If we juice preserve our traditions and the way we prepare the dishes, it automatically goes

now so um this is umKamar Kavu which is um shrimp with okra really simple is that what it is yeahokay make sure it is what it is um so a really kind of simple tomato

preciousness about it so I think that comes through in the book do you have a favorite recipe or no it depends on theseason I mean you know okra salad in the middle of summer is going to be great but you know braid short ribs in themiddle of winter are going to be great and Chicken Bog and there's a lot of really others Southern chess pie and uh

You know, all of the book for me was important to broadcast as much incredible Black talent asRice. Okra. So you look at Senegalese jollof rice, and then you think about something like grits.

and and when we wanted information you had to go to the library and you hope they had the book there because you knowAfrican galin Africana the African chicken they even have a a shrimp and okra dish but many many dishes stuffed

So she shows up, gets a house, doesn't really know the language very well.People immediately start appearing with gifts and somebody'll bring a little basket of okra, somebody'll bring some fish, some grain, potatoes, and she doesn't know what to do, of course,she's an anthropologist, she gets out her little notebook and writes everything down; her living room gradually filling up with baskets and various types of goods.

Kristin: Nice to meet you.You can pick macaroni and cheese, >>Lee: okra Kristin: fried okra, I mean it was a smörgåsbord ; it was a festival of eating every day.

for okra you know it's the in the French they call it gbo but they had that from from obviously from the W of world wofis the main language in Sagal so gumbo uh I was saying which is okra which isone of my favorite ingredient uh is was imported to the Americas it became the dish that we know

I just, you know, it just goes so beautifully with these eggplants. They're so fantasticand the little vericated eggplant as well and then you get maroon okra and if you had okra everyday or kohlrabi greens, I'm not sure, has anybody cooked kohlrabi greens?Yes, tell me how do you cook them--you steamed them--beautiful, no garlic but that's a--what?

You were-- We used to have something at my middle school, Grady Middle School in Houston, Texas, and it was, like, the Gators Elite.Black Trans Travel Fund, For The Girls, The Okra Project, Black Trans Fems and the Art, and many more.

So I went back again the next day and spent another bit of time.But again, the colors and that edge of the okra,just I thought it was a great moment.

You were-- We used to have something at my middle school, Grady Middle School in Houston, Texas, and it was, like, the Gators Elite.Yeah, yeah. So we have-- so we also tried to find-- so for example, The Okra Project focuses on food insecurities in the Black and Brown trans

And at one point before the Civil War, rice is the main economy in the Carolinas.If you look at the foods of the South of the United States, whether you go to New Orleans, okra, which you need for gumbo,comes out of West Africa.

So biological also-- it's 18 and16, which is much less than the standard specification.healthy life. Apart from these jasmine flowers which you see, he grows a lot of his lady fingers, okra.

of a farmer's market and we ended up talking for about an hour and a half.Cost might go down at a certain point but now you wanna grow something difficult, trial and error, you've gotta grow it out several years to see whether you can grow okra or,

Oh.They know I like healthy-- or I don't really eat healthy, but they think I eat healthy, so they steamed a lot of vegetables and okras and stuff like that.Oh, this is at your-- At their house.