| a_s1576_02_c78-042 | Interview with Nancy and Ray Morgan on making hog's head cheese and fiddling | Sound | Cooks
Interviews
Fiddle music
Instrument manufacture
Gourds
Life histories
Swine
Food preparation
Animals
Food
Fiddlers
Musical instrument maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Nancy and Ray Morgan on making hog's head cheese and fiddling
- Date
- 1977-11-08
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side 1: Interview of Nancy Morgan: Morgan discusses both making hog's headcheese and her life's history. She talks about how long she had been making the head cheese, butchering hogs, the parts she uses, how she boils the head, dressing the hog, and special recipes like liver pudding, chitlins and cracklins, pig's feet, and beef tripe, etc. She also describes growing up in Fargo, Georgia, related weather and insects, her family's ethnic heritage, and talks about how her father taught her old songs and performed at various venues. She sings "Little Orphan Girl" and "Wake Up Jacob" without instrumentals. Side 2: Interview of Ray Morgan, with Nancy Morgan: [Difficult to hear-voices indistinct.] Ray Morgan talks about how he and Nancy met and on making and playing gourd fiddles. Plays the gourd and regular fiddle.
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| a_s1576_02_c78-047 | Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark | Sound | Basket maker
Interviews
Basket work
Basket making
Basketry
African Americans
White oak
Family history
Life histories
Agriculture
Family farming
Seed crops
Food preparation
Food habits
Plants
Flora
Harvesting
Healers
Medicine
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Interview with basket maker Lucreaty Clark
- Date
- 1978-04-14
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side 1: Clarke, born in Jefferson County in 1904, started making white oak baskets when she was 13. She learned to do so from her parents and grandparents and discusses the types of baskets she made and explains how she makes them. She also discusses her grandparents - - who were once slaves - - and talks about the changes Lamont, Florida, has undergone throughout the years. In addition, she talks about planting and harvesting collards, peas, sweet corn, tomatoes, okra, and snap beans, and she discusses cooking collards and snap beans. Side 2: Clarke continues her discussion on foods and wild plants like the palm tree bud [??], polk salad (poisonous), elephant ears, tanion, and pepper grass. Also, she describes home remedies such as mint, ragweed, tallow, turpentine and camphos, castor oil and turpentine, cow water (for whooping cough), "Yellow Gal" (for fever), asaphidity bag. Further, she talks about growing up on a plantation, travels to Syracuse, New York, New Jersey, and Naples, Florida, talks about her relatives, and discusses finishing baskets by soaking them in water for a brown finish.
- Collection
| a_s1576_02_c78-055 | Interview with Maggie Melton | Sound | Artisans
Interviews
Fieldwork
Snakes
Belts (Clothing)
Animals
Alligators
Leather goods
Life histories
Hunting
Fauna
Food preparation
Jewelry making
Turtles
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Interview with Maggie Melton
- Date
- 1978-05-09
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C78-55: Margaret (Maggie) Melton discusses snake and alligator hunting, cooking, and skinning; making birdhouses from gourds; working with hides and bones; foods unique to the Plant City area; cooking hog organs and gophers; making turtle soup; cane grinding and syrup making; candy pulls; fishing nets made from burlap sacks; and teas used for home remedies. C78-56: Melton discusses making things from nature; fishing for and cooking scallops; gardening during a full moon; making jewelry from bones; preparing snake hides; and making belts.
- Collection
| a_s1576_02_c78-057 | Interview with Jamie B. Jordan | Sound | Interviews
Fieldwork
Cooking and dining
Food preparation
Food habits
Life histories
Beliefs and cultures
Fauna
Belief systems
Alternative medicine
Medicine & culture
Domestic arts
Cooks
Healers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Jamie B. Jordan
- Date
- 1978-05-15
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. C78-57: Side 1: Jordan discusses dishes and foods indigenous to her household, central Northern Florida, and the rest of the South: rice and black-eyed peas, rice and tomatoes, mince meat pie, liver pudding, mustard greens and cornbread dumplings, sweet potato pie, and fruit cobblers. She also explains how to make hog's headcheese. In addition, she talks about preparing and eating polk salad greens, snakes, alligators, raccoon, gopher turtle, frogs' legs, etc. Side 2: Jordan talks about okra, planting by the moon and on Good Friday, Dog Days, delivering babies, home remedies, and root doctors. C78-58: Side 1: On her belief in witchcraft, her feelings on root doctors, on people poisoned and cured by witchcraft, a hurricane that hit Miami in 1927/1928, poisoning with snakes, and palm readers. In addition, Jordan discusses cures for boils, labor pains, childbirth, midwives, morning sickness, etc. Side 2: Jordan talks about her sister's illness and treatment by root doctors, her experiences at the Red Barn restaurant, and an FBI investigation on locals in her area.
- Collection
| a_s1576_08_c83-043 | Interview with Margaret Triay, Donnie Gader, and Linda Hinman on Minorcan foodways | Sound | Folklore revival festivals
Interviews
Oral histories
Personal experience narratives
Cooking and dining
Minorcan Americans
Food habits
Food preparation
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Margaret Triay, Donnie Gader, and Linda Hinman on Minorcan foodways
- Date
- 1983-05-27
- Description
- One audio cassette. Recorded at the Minorcan Folklife Area at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival. Side 1: Triay, Gader, and Hinman, all native Floridians, discuss traditional Minorcan foodways in St. Augustine and the rest of Florida. They talk about the characteristics that make their cooking reflective of the Minorcan style and how they make various Minorcan dishes. Side 2: Triay, Gader, and Hinman discuss Minorcan foodways, sayings, and songs in St. Augustine and the rest of Florida.
- Collection
| a_s1576_09_c83-056 | Interview with cook Flora Mae Hunter | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
African Americans
Cooking and dining
Occupational groups
Food preparation
Labor
Occupational training
Plantations
Personal experience narratives
Oral histories
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with cook Flora Mae Hunter
- Date
- 1983-04-13
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. On side one, Hunter discusses her life's history and her experiences as a cook in various homes and plantations in Florida, Georgia, and Ohio. After marrying, she was hired as a cook for the Baker family at the Horseshoe plantation and worked for them for thirty-six years. She cooked for many prominent guests, including the former Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Mr. and Mrs. Tolbert, and others. She discusses serving food at field trials (dog racing contests held at plantations); cooking collard greens for her family; pan broiling quail; cooking over coal and wood; differences in the kinds of food she cooked for her family and the kinds of food she cooked for the families she worked for; and her parents' farming work. On side two, Hunter discusses a story about making deviled eggs in a version she named Horseshoe eggs; learning to cook both by experimentation and by instruction; her favorite recipes (turkey dressing, chicken sandwiches); remembering how her family members butchered hogs to make sausage and liver pudding; grinding cane; her quilt making; attending Springhill Missionary Baptist Church; playing instruments at church; and the successes of her grandchildren.
- Collection
| a_s1576_22_c86-170 | Ida Farah interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Cooks
Bakers and bakeries
Fieldwork
Interviews
Sound recordings
Life histories
Oral histories
Palestinian Americans
Food preparation
Food
Food habits
Cooking and dining
Arab Americans
Restaurants
Delicatessens
Community enterprise
Specialty stores
Emigration and immigration
Baking | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Ida Farah interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1984-12-07
- Description
- One audio cassette. The interview took place in Farah's Deli and Imported Foods restaurant. Farah discusses moving to Jacksonville in 1969; learning to cook from her mother; life in Palestine; early bakery experiences; the Arabic language; Arabic dining; teaching her daughter to cook; Arabic versus non-Arabic customers in deli; foods sold: grape leaves, pita bread, falafel, tabouli; making falafel; pastries; food at special events; and types of demonstrations she can do. Images of Nadia can be found in S 1577, v. 36. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts,and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
- Collection
| a_s1576_22_c86-192 | Interview with Cuban baker Bobby Ulloa | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Occupational groups
Food preparation
Bread
Oral histories
Life histories
Food industry and trade
Cuban Americans
Cookery (Guava)
Cookery, Cuban
Bakery
Baked products
Holidays and festivals
Medicine
Latinos
Cooking and dining
Emigration and immigration
Naming practices
Catholics
Games
Bakers and bakeries
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with Cuban baker Bobby Ulloa
- Date
- 1985-08-15
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Cassettes are of Cuban cooks who owned and ran the Cuban Bakery of Jacksonville. They discuss emigrating to the US in the 1960s; Bobby's father opening the bakery in 1970; teaching college; various products sold: guava paste, black beans, baked ham, and pork; Cuban bread; types and methods of making; pastries; Cuban sweet bread; working conditions in a bakery; Jacksonville's Cuban American community; learning English; family holiday traditions; Catholicism; Spanish naming traditions; Cuban games; Botonicas and traditional medicine; and American reactions to Cuba. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
- Collection
| a_s1576_46_fln-022 | Saturday performances at the 1995 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshops) (Tapes 12-13) | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Workshops (Adult education)
Cooking and dining
Food preparation
Food habits
Arts, Jewish
Jewish Americans
Bar mitzvah
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_46_fln-030 | Sunday performances at the 1995 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Workshops) (Tape 7) | Sound | Storytellers
Embroiderers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Workshops (Adult education)
Cooking and dining
Food preparation
Embroidery
Arts, Hungarian
Hungarians Americans
Food habits
Jewish Americans
Storytelling
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
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