American Cornucopia filmed on St George Street in St Augustine is a sample of what you may want to plan to see when you are planning your St Augustine vacations. The Colonial Spanish Quarter Museum.
Filmmaker Bruce Merwin interviewed Shannon Golden, a Culinary Historian. Mr. Golden talks about food history and where our American food came from.
Mr. Golden talks of yams, sweat potatoes, and peanuts and how they were introduced to American food-ways by African Americans. He talks about how America has a mixture of food contributions to make the table we have today and how food brings us all together as a nation.
There are St Augustine tours on St George Street that may have living history re-enactors cooking food on site at The Colonial Spanish Quarter living history museum.
OK, I go over to the Colonial Spanish Quarter Museum to see chickens and their chicken coop.
I happen to be into chickens right now, I don't even know why. I love eating fresh eggs, that could be why. I love looking at their feathers, that could be why. But it's probably because I just enjoy watching them, something ancient, watching an ancient species peck and scratch at the Earth, that's probably the real reason.
When African Americans ate I would like to think there were eggs in their diet, many eggs. Turtle eggs, fish eggs, alligator eggs. It must have been interesting for them to see how the Spanish kept their chickens.
Imagine learning you could keep your own chickens and each day receive healthy, hardy, rich food from a chicken. That’s what happen to me, I realized I could grow my own chickens from chicks. That took me about six months before they started laying eggs, tasty, just go out to the back yard and get them, easy to cook fresh, natural eggs.
Funny story about my chicken's eggs
So I was tending the chickens, as mentioned above for about six month and my wife told me one evening she had spoken to the chickens and mentioned that we had been taking care of them for quite awhile and it was time for them to start producing eggs. I laughed and just thought ah good for her. The next day...the very next day, there were eggs. True story.
