holidays
Gracie Webb - Holiday Memories (clip)
Interviewer: Who does the cooking for Christmas and Thanksgiving?
Gracie Webb (GW): All of us do. All us carried a covered dish.
Interviewer: Oh.
GW: Then it’s – so it’s not hard on nobody. One would cook ham, one would cook the turkey. And then, cook pies, whatever they want to. Everybody had…
Gracie Webb - Holiday Memories (clip)
Gracie Webb - On her family, growing up in Northside, and changes in Northside
“On Sundays everybody would come after church and come there and eat, the pastors and all [of them]. We weren’t the wealthiest, but we were always full.”
- Gracie Webb
Throughout Gracie Webb’s life she has seemingly always been in the Northside and Cedar Groves area of Chapel Hill-Carrboro.…
Gracie Webb - On her family, growing up in Northside, and changes in Northside
Lillie Edwards and Juanita Washington - On food and cooking
Lillie recounts on her first experiences with cooking bread as a young girl. She was the designated cook of the family. She also talks about her mother’s cooking style since her mother does not use standard recipes to cook. Juanita speaks about Mama Dip (her aunt) being the head cook in her family.…
Lillie Edwards and Juanita Washington - On food and cooking
Willistine McClain - Holiday Memories (clip)
Willistine McClain (WM): [The] thing that sticks out most in my mind is her fruitcakes.
Monica Palmeira (MP): Fruitcakes? She made really good fruitcakes?
WM: She would always make fruitcakes at Christmas. And she would make fruitcakes for just about everybody in the neighborhood.
MP: Oh really? She…
Willistine McClain - Holiday Memories (clip)
