Home is Where the Food Is “You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not to sere fried chicken at next year’s dinner. Got it?... or collard greens or whatever the hell those people eat” (Williams-Forson 136). This was said by Fuzzy Zoeller referring to Tiger Woods when he won the Master’s Golf Tournament in 1997. Psyche Williams-Forson wrote Suckin’ the Chicken Bone Dry, arguing that food interactions and stereotypes are underpinned by variables such as gender, power, and history. Williams-Forson used personal experiences and observational evidence to relate the variables mentioned to real life; in this instance the relation between African Americans and fried chicken. Stereotypes are common in today’s society as well as countless years before today. However, the stereotype with African American’s and the food consumed by that race, specifically fried chicken originated in history; …show more content…
Black women were recognized as leaders of the kitchen for the preparation of fried chicken; a role that has a need to keep separation between the “cook and the consumer,” (Williams-Forson 144). Many African American’s were illiterate; as a consequence, white women would take advantage of that deficiency by claiming black women’s recipes as their own just like Marjorie Rawlings did in Cross Creek Cookery using Idella Parkers recipes (Williams-Forson 145). Rawlings gave credit to Parkers for three recipes out of the whole book which is “one of the ways that White people have been able to claim and reclaim Southern foods like fried chicken for their own,” yet again another way for white southerners to gain power to make African American’s feel inferior (Williams-Forson