In My Father's Kitchen

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This is where I keep my father, who is now an ancestor. In My Father's Kitchen, I make his food and remember him out loud. Some posts are recipes you can cook. Some are essays about what it means to inherit a person through what they made. All of

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About Meagan Ayana

Los Angeles-based writer and cultural journalist. I document Hoodoo, ancestral practice, and Black spiritual life through Code Noir, and I run Temple Art Market, a Black-led monthly art market in Echo Park.

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