Peggy Brunache

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Peggy Brunache is a Haitian American food historian and archaeologist. She currently lives in Perth and lectures at the University of Glasgow on the History of Atlantic slavery . Brunache has contributed to various BBC programs and is involved with an annual food festival in Perth called the Southern Fried Food Festival.

Biography[]

Brunache is Haitian American in heritage and grew up in Miami, Florida.[1] In college, she pursued anthropology and then became involved with a field school run by at St. Augustine, Florida.[2] Brunache earned her master's degree at the University of South Carolina and then earned her doctorate at the University of Texas.[2] While in South Carolina, Brunache missed the food she had grown up with and began to cook for herself.[3]

In May 2006, she moved to Scotland to be closer to Andy Shearer.[1] Brunache and Shearer met in 2005 at South by Southwest, and after meeting, they stayed in touch.[3] They were married in December 2006.[3] Together they started a family and she finished up her thesis which focused on women in slavery in Guadeloupe and their cuisine.[2][4] Her work for her thesis pointed to the origins of modern Creole cuisine and Soul Food.[3] Through her work on women in La Mahaudière, she discovered that slave women did most of the cooking and were very involved in the island markets.[5] These women significantly contributed to the cuisine of the region.[5]

Around 2007, Shearer and Brunache started the Perth Southern Fried Food Festival.[3] The festival celebrates American food from the Southern United States.[3] She also has contributed to BBC Radio Scotland's The Kitchen Café.[6] She has also been featured in the BBC Two history series, .[7]

Brunache lectures at the University of Glasgow.[8] In 2016, she was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship to do an excavation of the first integrated school in Ohio, the Parker Academy.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Usmani, Sumayya (9 September 2017). "Sumayya Usmani's culinary journey: a Haitian love story". The Herald Scotland. Archived from the original on 10 April 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  2. ^ a b c "Raising Horizons: Unearthing Identity". TrowelBlazers. Archived from the original on 14 September 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Martin, Nicola (23 July 2014). "Soul Food and the Southern Fried Woman". Small City BIG Personality. Archived from the original on 10 April 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  4. ^ Brunache, Peggy Lucienne (2011). "Enslaved Women, Foodways, and Identity Formation: The Archaeology of Habitation La Mahaudière, Guadeloupe, circa Late-18th Century to Mid-19th Century" (PDF). University of Texas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  5. ^ a b Arcangeli, Myriam (2015). Sherds of History: Domestic Life in Colonial Guadeloupe. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. pp. 97–98. ISBN 9780813055206. OCLC 897905581 – via Project MUSE.
  6. ^ "The Kitchen Café - Peggy Brunache - BBC Radio Scotland". BBC. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  7. ^ "A Black History of Britain – BBC series". Scottish Centre for Global History. 31 August 2016. Archived from the original on 10 April 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  8. ^ "Oral History Project". Society of Black Archaeologists. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  9. ^ "NKU to Keep Uncovering Ohio's First Integrated School". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 14 July 2016. Retrieved 2018-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.

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