In Portugal they have a salad with tuna and black eyed peas. And I keep thinking about how that little cowpea that originated in West Africa has been so many places. So far from home, spread so far and wide, interpreted in so many different ways, but still so resilient.
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Yet, no matter how it’s cooked or paired, it retains that connection to its origins. A reminder of how far-reaching and intertwined our stories really are.
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-cowpea-a-recipe-for-resilience/