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Christmas Show

Season 12 Episode 1227 | 26m 59sVideo has Closed Captions

Christmas Show

Chef John Folse discusses how slaves celebrated Christmas on the plantation with Jessica Harris, an African-American studies expert and food historian. In the kitchen, he cooks Roasted Wild Boar Ham as he discusses the African influence on Southern and Louisiana food with Harris. Chef Folse and Harris then prepare “Possum and Taters” at the LSU Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge.

04/02/2011 | Expires 04/02/2030 | Rating TV-G

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Christmas Show

Season 12 Episode 1227 | 26m 59sVideo has Closed Captions

Chef John Folse discusses how slaves celebrated Christmas on the plantation with Jessica Harris, an African-American studies expert and food historian. In the kitchen, he cooks Roasted Wild Boar Ham as he discusses the African influence on Southern and Louisiana food with Harris. Chef Folse and Harris then prepare “Possum and Taters” at the LSU Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge.

04/02/2011 | Expires 04/02/2030 | Rating TV-G

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