“My great-grandmother was both enslaved and a pastry cook who was famous for her biscuits and cakes… There is power in that.”
Baker and co-founder of Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice Cheryl Day of Back in the Day Bakery - Savannah, Ga. for the New York Times
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