HERstory is Our History in Cooking and Poetry: How to Cook Cow Peas

​Traveling back from Charleston, I’m reminded of Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor through her cooking and poetry in Vibration Cooking Or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl. 

Here is how to cook cow peas: “Remove all the peas that look weird and wash and soak in cold water. Cook in some kind of boiled meat until done.”

Here is how to cook red rice: “Fry smoke bacon in a skillet and then add your fresh tomatoes. Cook for a hot minute and then add cold cooked rice and cook for another 20 minutes.”

Obituary: Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

walk through life

beautiful more than anything

stand in the sunlight

walk through life

love all the things that make you strong

    be lovers,

          be anything

for all the people of 

earth

Thank you for the inspiration and the cookin’ tips. We’ll sure miss you, Vertamae.