Southeast: Jigsaw Readings and Food

Music Quiz

• What’s the Southern music genre?– Zydeco– Gospel– Country– Jazz– Funk– Blues

Jigsaw Readings

• 3 readings:– Gullah– Food– New Orleans

• Step 1:– Meet with a person with your SAME color– Compare answers for 3 minutes

Jigsaw Readings

• Meet in groups of 3– One person from each color

• Teach each other about the article’s main ideas– Take notes on the other colors

• 15 minutes

Gullah

• Gullah Storytelling

New Orleans

• Lonely Planet

Mardi Gras

SOUTHEASTERN CULTURE

Very Old

Plantations and Agriculture

Slavery

Religion

Hunting and Fishing

Confederate Flag

Manners

Houses

Marsh

Live Oaks / Spanish Moss

Swamp (Bayou)

FOOD

Pralines

• French people brought pralines to New Orleans

• Brown sugar, butter, cream

Benne Wafer Cookies

• Benne = Bantu name for “sesame seeds”

• Brought from East Africa by slaves

• Popular in Southern cooking

Pepper Jelly

• Jelly made from peppers

• Sweet and a little spicy

• From the South

• Eat it with cream cheese and crackers

Grits

• Native Americans taught the English settlers who to make them

• Ground corn

• Eat for breakfast or with shrimp or fish for lunch/dinner

Southern Food in Orange County

• Memphis Grill– Costa Mesa– Santa Ana

Memphis Café: Menu