Kamille D. Whittaker
Cassava From My Mother's Garden: "Our ancestors had to tap into the rhythm of the plants …"
I am always intrigued by mom's growing of Cassava, knowing what I know about the rules surrounding its harvest and consumption. Every year, when she harvests her haul of cassava, I revisit this video featuring anthropologist Fatimah Jackson of Howard University, who talks about epigenetics, co-evolutionary diets and how plants domesticated humans. Beginning her research in Liberia, she studies the vast differences in occurrences of sickling with Sickle Cell Anemia and traces