top left: An early bottle of Jack Daniel’s; the formerly enslaved Nathan “Nearest” Green was the first master distiller at Jack
Daniel’s and the first Black master distiller on record in the U.S. top right: This sort of rice mortar and pestle would have been used
by enslaved Africans to hull rice in a West African technique. bottom left: Fanner baskets, used across the Low Country to winnow
rice, are a technology brought to the U.S. from West Africa. bottom right: This Victorian oyster fork is similar to what might have
been used in Thomas Downing’s luxurious Lower Manhattan oyster cellar (see p. 70). Many thanks to the Museum of Food and Drink in
New York City, whose exhibit African/American: Making the Nation’s Table, opens March 6. For details, visit mofad.org.
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