The amount of food a black panther consumes in one sitting depends on the size of the prey and the individual's hunger. They can devour up to 20% of their body weight in one meal. In the case of extreme food shortage, a black panther may feed on human flesh.
Then again there’s the Black Panthers of human history.
Party Leader Huey P. Newton's unofficial office was a soul food restaurant-bar in North Oakland called Bosn's Locker. Newton would hold court with the community for hours, often with his shotgun on display as the symbol of the party's work for the survival of Black life through armed self-defense from police violence.
What makes a great pit master? Well, in Bobby Seale's case you found the Black Panther's, disrupt the 1968 Democratic Convention, go to jail, get arrested again and again and -- oh yes, make really great barbeque.
Well it may not be the most conventional resume for a cookbook author, but it may be the most interesting.
What can one say? Even revolutionaries gotta eat. Don't for a moment think that you are going to get some ribs spread with Kraft Sauce stuck in an oven. This is Bobby Seale. The man knows his 'que and there are no shortcuts. His "quick" barbeque sauce has 18 ingredients!
Pork is not the only white meat out there. Bobby grills chicken, turkey, game hens, fish, and beef. His marinades, rubs, and sauces are complex and involved -- he leaves no stone unturned.
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SOMETIME DURING THE 1920s, noted Harlem historian and bibliophile Arturo Schomburg composed an ambitious proposal for one of the greatest African-American cookbooks never written. In his outline, Schomburg detailed plans to document some 400 recipes that would have cataloged everything from “traces of Africanisms which still persist in American dishes,” such as okra gumbo, to newer “‘invented’ dishes [meant] to take the bad taste of charity away from the victuals doled out by relief committees,” presumably including dishes built around offal or cheap beans and rice. Most of all, Schomburg was keen on exploring “how the negro genius has adapted […] receipts taught him by his masters just as he adapted the stern Methodist hymns and the dour tenets of Protestantism […] and how he has modified them to express his own peculiar artistic powers.” One scholar to come across the outline, sociologist John Brown Childs, evocatively wrote in 1984 that Schomburg’s vision highlighted how black foodways subverted and converted “the food of oppression into the staff of life.”
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Jubilee embraces an impressive array of dishes, ranging from Southern-style roast leg of lamb with rosemary to Senegalese-influenced, peanut sauce–braised lamb shanks to South Asian-by-way-of-South-Africa-by-way-of-Caribbean lamb curry. Jubilee can move from popular dishes, such as its recipe for Memphis-style pork shoulder, to a highly specific one, as when Toni Tipton-Martin shares a method for making the Coca-Cola–marinated, oven-baked BBQ ribs favored by Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale. The cookbook manages to be simultaneously comprehensive in its scope yet also idiosyncratic in its selections. You are never not aware of the author’s presence, guiding you through her literary pantry.
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While the Bobby Seale BBQ cookbook was published in the late 1980's, it has a very modern feel. Much of his attention turns to sides and vegetables to accompany the barbeque, though many would make fine meals, in and of themselves.
Seale was fond of "goobers" and points out that the goober is a generic African word that refers to nuts in general, not the peanut in particular. In this recipe the goober of choice is the black walnut.
Goober Carrot Raisin Slaw
4 medium sized carrots, washed and finely grated
1 cup cabbage (white or red), finely grated
1 1/3 cup raisins
1 cup crushed black walnuts
1 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing
1/2 teaspoon each ground black pepper, onion parsley salt (or to taste)
Parsley for garnish
In a 3- or 4- quart bowl, combine and mix together grated carrots, cabbage, 1 cup raisins, and walnuts with mayonnaise or salad dressing. Season to taste with black pepper and onion parsley salt. garnish with bits of fresh parsley and the remaining 1/3 cup of raisins.
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Across the nation Panthers raised a glass of Bobby Hutton's favorite drink, the official cocktail of the Black Panther Party, in his memory.
It went by many different names, all of them fierce: Panther Piss, Bitter Dog, and Bitter Motherf*cker*. The basic ingredients were filtered lemon juice concentrate and port wine.
The Four Deuce's song "W-P-L-J (White Port and Lemon Juice)" offers the basic recipe for this "good, good wine that really make you feel so fine."
To make the drink you "open the bottle and drink the top part of the almost sickeningly sweet, cheap stuff—'the poison,'" recalled Black Panther Chief of Staff David Hilliard in his autobiography and party history This Side of Glory. Then you fill the bottle with a can or a half a can of filtered lemon juice concentrate, put the lid back on and shake vigorously, and then refrigerate the mixture until it is chilled.
Hilliard remembers other variations he and Huey P. Newton tested out in their youth. "[W]e experiment buying Rainer's Ale […] and even Thunderbird, combining ice-cold bottles of the wine with lime Kool-Aid. Looking like embalming fluid, the stuff makes your brain itch; compared to Thunderbird, the Bitter Motherfucker is a fine Burgundy. (Years later, I'm in Washington representing the Party and taken to a fancy restaurant. Condescendingly my host suggests I pick the wine. Château White Port, I coolly reply.)"
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