Zorafest 2012 took a final bow with Lucy Anne Hurston, special guest for Food & Folklore. She was introduced by Food & Folklore’s former host (now full-time designer) Brian Evans. Hats, fans, stories, and costume changes. Lucy always takes the cake. Eatonville looks forward to seeing her again next year!
Sunday, January 29 at 6:30 PM Eatonville Restaurant’s Food & Folklore series presents “Fact or Folklore” with Lucy Anne Hurston. It’s always a party when Zora’s niece Lucy Anne Hurston is in the house. Zora Neale Hurston’s life and Zora’s stories often intertwine. Even fans may embellish. Lucy will set it straight expelling misconceptions [...]
THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED Eatonville Restaurant’s annual Zorafest! is coming up January 28 – 29. If you can’t make it to the Zorafest in Eatonville, Florida, Eatonville Restaurant is your next best stop. Here’s what’s happenin’: Saturday, January 28, 11 AM – 4 PM – Craft Fair and Market in the upstairs loft of [...]
Eatonville’s getting closer to Zora’s Florida roots and Caribbean journeys with the new fall menu. We’re talking more vegetables, seafood and a gracious touch of the Caribbean. Features like Jerk Marinated Chicken Breast with fingerling potatoes and succotash are destined to join restaurant classics and customer favorites. Vegetarians and vegans will find new entrees on [...]
Eatonville Restaurant doesn’t just vibe off Zora’s Florida cultural roots, but her cultivated roots during her years in DC…. What do you think I was doing in Washington at that time if not getting cultured. Zora Neale Hurston in a letter to Langston Hughes Five years ago I asked Kim Roberts poet, literary historian and [...]
We’re trying something new. A Food & Folklore Channel — audio or video podcasts of Food & Folklore events. You can listen to the “Caribbean Connections” Food & Folklore stories from the MP3 links below – in 3 Chapters. (Click on the chapters) Chapter 1 Andy Shallal gets the night started with stories about Eatonville, [...]
This post has been updated Zora Neale Hurston was no stranger to the Caribbean. While in Miami, Florida, she gravitated towards the music and dance of the Bahamas and sailed to Nassau without a thought to what her patroness or anyone else would think. Zora wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God and, being a hoodoo [...]
With Mardi Gras coming up (March 8), there’s the temptation to focus on the Gumbo factor. Gumbo’s gotten big in DC and Gumbo aficionados are getting picky. The “Gumbo police” reports range from critical assessments, “Top 10” lists, blogging gumbo, to diners calling their mothers and grandmothers on their cell phones to report “Your gumbo [...]
Wait till she get out her car, Calvin. Let her get settled at ‘Met’s and cook a pan of ginger bread then we’ll all go down and tell lies and eat ginger bread. Dat’s de way to do. She’s tired now from all dat drivin’. – From Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston [...]
New Chef’s catching up on reading, and from that added something to the menu taken right out of the pages of Zora’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Pick up a copy and flip the pages to chapter 13. Tea Cake and Janie have just taken their leave from town. What was that woman thinking going [...]
