Carla Hall: Watermelon is a Protest Fruit!
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- Top Chef and culinary anthropologist, Carla Hall, talks with Karen about the history and power of the watermelon. Karen and Carla discuss the origin of this perfect fruit, it's relationship to Black culture and why it was demonized on purpose. #CarlaHall #Watermelon #History #TopChef
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Carla's book: amzn.to/3gXO4eb
www.fifteenspatulas.com
This title is it! I literally just bought a seedless watermelon at the grocery store yesterday, then drove past a brother selling organic ones with seeds out of his farm truck. Promptly bought his and threw the other one out
My brother grows his own watermelon. Do not eat seedless fruit. its hybrid and not as good.
Never buy seedless, its not grown pure.
I listened twice! You’re right Karen, Ms Hall is so much more than a Top Chef! Thank you !!!
Yes!
Just a side note, has anyone noticed how it’s almost impossible to find seeded watermelon?
True. We have to get ours from local farmers. I’m in TX but we got some last weekend from south Louisiana and are keeping the seeds to grow our own.
Yes I know weré there at and I'm not telling
Really, the ones in my area always have seeds.
I’m on the west coast and this seems to be most groceries stores.
Gotta find it from the guy on the truck
Love the watermelons with the black seeds. Look for the yellow spot. Nothing like a really cold, big piece.
@@queen_naaseh_x If you're lucky enough to live in an area where the farm trucks drive up in the summertime, their watermelons are always seeded.
I can not find black seeded watermelon, only small white seeds that look like cut up white paper!! 😎🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔😎
Yes, they are hard to find. Especially with all the new varieties. Don't give up they are worth it. I live in the Bay Area we used to have the Watermelon Trucks. No more. Not even the Mexican guy. I found mine at the local Lucky really surprised. Got one getting cold on the fridge now! 🍉 The 💣
@@siriuslyspeaking9720 she said the outside should not be shiny, and it should have a yellow spot on it to show that it's ripe
As a toddler I had severe food allergies & was limited in what I could eat. My first birthday "cake" was a watermelon!🍉 It was the best! 💜🙌🏾💜
WOW. That's interesting. Thanks for sharing.
@@KarenHunterShow thank you for highlighting & educating us on our history! I am loving all of you, your guests, & your work!💜🤎💜
@@michellehenson984 my pleasure! It helps having a birthday in August. I hope this can be helpful all year round for your family! 💜
God is definitely working through you Karen! I am learning so much from your various platforms...Thank you so much!
You are so welcome!
Absolutely!!!
I used to be embarrassed to eat watermelon because of the cartoons that showed a black man eating watermelon and spitting out seeds. One day, I decided to try it for hydration purposes and now it is my favorite fruit.
I’m not embarrassed at all! Do you see how many of the non melanated folks are in the Popeye’s drive through and standing around the watermelon bin thumping those melons! Honey hush!🙌🏿
This is my first year growing my own watermelons. I have 3 melons right now on my plant and can't wait until they are ready!
I love Watermelon, Fried Chicken and Bananas but I would NEVER eat them in public because of the AMERICAN narrative that was pushed forward. I THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION THAT YOU CONTINUALLY PUT OUT ON YOUR SHOW!!! You instill a new pride in me SHOW AFTER SHOW!!!
Continue to let our ancestors teach through you Sister✊🏾
Not to mention how watermelons are a highly nutritious Super Food. By the way, that's my breakfast as I type.
My grandmother always kept pickle juice in the refrigerator😍😍.
Sounds like a drum when you tap it, genius! Thank you, Ancestors, you have left a beautiful trail of knowledge.
I was thinking the other day about gardening and I said I'm going to grow watermelons since I'm down here in Texas. The climate is perfect for it. I may even sell a few. Thanks Karen and Ms. Hall. I love listening to you two.❤
Years ago I was employed a product assist in a major supermarket. During the summer months I would cut watermelon into slices to for customers to purchase. This was one of my favorite job to do because I would sample the watermelon before putting them out for sale.( I would cut myself a slice for sampling). I never became tried of eating the watermelons. It is summer now and a purchase watermelon (sliced a my favorite produce store) everyday. Ms. Carla Hall many thanks for the short history lesson. Ms. Karen Hunter thank you for this topic.
Your episodes with Carla Hall are a mind, body, spirit experience! SOULICIOUS!!!
thank you.
Another awesome class Karen and Chef Carla ... here's to reclaiming out time and watermelon 🍉🍉🍉👍🏾
I have NEVER stop eating watermelons!!! I love them! I have recently learned about the health benefits and was so happy that I listened to my body. Thank you Prof. Hunter, history makers, etc. and historian & Chef Carla Hall.
I just watched this again for the 2nd time...I LOVE this series!
Great knowledge.
Love this. Very, very informative.
Watermelon is absolutely one of my favorite foods. I eat watermelon as a mono meal throughout the summer season here in Ga., but picked them on my families' farm when I was a kid. It's so nutritious and satisfying. Many people don't realize you can juice the rinds along with the watermelon fruit for densely high nutrition. Vitamins A,C, and chlorophyll.
My ancestors used to pickle the rinds in the summer to eat in the winter and holiday seasons, coloring them red [beet dye] and canning in mason jars. Perfect for Christmas. I loved this session with Chef Carla and Professor Hunter. The heaviness denotes more water. Every tip is on point. #Gratitude
My grandmother used to make watermelon rind pickles. One of my absolute favorite memories from my youth.
My African American friend explained it succinctly that how someone sitting on a porch drinking afternoon tea (white people) calling another (black people) in the field working lazy and that sticking shows how messed up things are.
We have got to stop depriving people knowledge.
we never will...
@@KarenHunterShow thank you! 💜🙌🏾💜
My sista Karen this was very educational and informative. Stay safe and keep up the great work
Very informative topic. I'll have to do more research on the pickles
Grew up buying from the watermelon truck in Harlem. We also purchased sweet potatoes and ham from the truck..buying Black was taught by our grandparents. Thank you both for highlighting parts of our culture that we may take for granted.
After the great migration of Black People to the North they still wanted Southern produce.
Some farmers still living in the South would harvest, load the truck, and drive to the North to sell it. Good money.✊🏾💪🏾
It's so funny I just asked a friend did they know where watermelon came from?? Looked it up and its genesis is from Africa.. Everything we produce is revered and hated by the western culture. Once I learned that, I proudly began to eat and ask for my watermelon in public. Its the most refreshing fruit ever!!! We are constantly taught to hate our heritage....we must learn our history
I'm buying me some watermelon the next time I go grocery shopping. Thanks for this interview!
You are welcome, Brandon!
When I went to Rome vendors were selling watermelon wedges on EVERY corner!!
Interesting topic .Some time ago I recall reading a passage in a book the author made reference to the watermelon being the liberation fruit since it is red , black & green
Black Queens like this make my chest swell out. 💥
This was a wonderful and informative video !!! Love Carla Hall!!! Love watermelon too!!💕🤩 🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉
Wow- I always learn so much from Carla watching these videos.
*I love me some watermelon & I never cared who saw me*
🍉😍
So good!
Ok thank you!
This discussion is so timely. I just got 2 large watermelons. One of them is gonna be juice and sorbet. Carla Hall is a culinary beast!
yes, she is!
Thank you for this! I am one of those who doesn't eat watermelon in public, but that will change today. I love these chats with experts in their fields. I need to tell my eight year old niece who loves watermelon that it originated in West Africa.
As a kid growing up in Richmond CA we were walking distance from where they grew acres of flowers in greenhouses acres collard greens and a watermelon patch the size the Oakland Coliseum. I remember turning down some watermelon from my girlfriend who grew up in San Francisco and she was like "oh don't tell me don't eat watermelon" and I oh yes I do but it ain't watermelon season yet and she said how do you know when it's in season? I told her when you see Mr Johnson or Mr Abraham rolling down the street singing "WATERMELON Fresh from vine ripe to the rind come git-yo WATERMELON". Then you'll know it's git-yo watermelon season and tell"em I sent' ya. Gotta remember to go by the Black Farmers market the next time I'm on the west side.
Malcolm from Oakland
Professor Hunter I must say, this is brilliant way to educate your listeners through the foundation and history of food. Here I’m trying to soak in all knowledge from Saturday with you and Dr. Carr and now you have a found another way to intrigued our minds by the way of food. Excellent strategy!!! Bravo Bravo!!!! I see you 👀
good to be seen...
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I always wondered why ever so often I craved a pickle, and right now I have one on my table and have been eating them for the last 3 days. I didn't know Black People were embarrassed about eating watermelon. I'm embarrassed about not having enough money to buy one. Thank you for how to choose a good watermelon lesson. At 66 i never knew nor has anyone that I have ever known knows how to choose a good watermelon. Info most helpful I will pass it on.
I respect and love Karen Hunter and Carla Hall for videos of this nature. The history of Black People and watermelon should be known. Never let someone else destroy your self concept. The Pickle Juice advice was absolutely correct!!! Thank you
OMG Karen my N.C. Grandmother 👵🏾 always made pickled watermelon rind. It is Delicious and was my favorite pickle growing up in NYC.
Thank you ladies for the educational conversation. My family proudly ate watermelon and I never know the origin story of this fruit. Love this!!!
Watermelon wasn't a staple in our home when I was a kid... so when we did get a watermelon it was such a treat. 😊
Watermelon makes your skin pretty. Eat it. 🤗🤗🤗
Again!! 🙏🙌🔥Thank you for another enlightening conversation Ms.Hunter! I can’t wait for more and more of our people to follow these conversations. I just want to say how proud I am of my Black people. I also love watermelon!
Our pleasure, Bianca!
Salt on a sweet chilled watermelon 😋 so good. I also put salt on an orange, peaches, nectarine, and any fruit that is sweet. Please try it you will love it.😋😉
I love when we can take back our power. Thank you sister!!!!!!!
Absolutely, Henry!
Educational 👍🏾
I missed this one. Glad I came back to it. Fire!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you. This was so informative. I'm really enjoying your show and these food lessons with Carla. BTW, I had some sweet cold watermelon today which is the perfect food for Summer. Props and much respect to our ancestors.
Thank you for this knowledge. My daughter used watermelon to make a watermelon martini. Yummy
This was great. I would love Carla Hall to do a youtube series about Southern Foods that Black people contribute to the culture
that's what this is...
Wow! Now this makes me curious about these watermelon trucks, their disappearance, and if there's any connection to modern-day 'food deserts'? It's probably more complex than one single cause, but this is a bread crumb I'd like to follow and learn more about. Thanks so much for sharing the knowledge, Carla and Karen!
Great show. Not to go off target but I learned about turkey salad with grapes from a baby shower. There are so many foods/recipes we need to learn again.
My mom, eating salt on her watermelon. Who would a thunk ?
Thank you Karen & Carla for the history lesson about watermelons!🍉 Ive always loved the taste of melons. Going to slice some watermelon cubes and post it on my IG account! Luv ya Karen👍🏽
Thank you! Love you back, Aretha!
Watermelon for breakfast, especially when it is gonna be a hot day.
We still buy our watermelon from the truck all summer every summer, brother drives them up from NC. Paused the video to go get a bowl 😋🥰
LOVE IT!
I’ve never heard of pickle juice!!! Wow!
Thank you for the of show today I learned a lot and I always love Watermelon I don't care who see me. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it, Quincy!
Karen, I really enjoy your show!! I am new to you, but I love you already!! Keeping us up on good information!! I love it!!🥰❤
Thanks, Ebony! Welcome to the family.
This is awesome! I recently saw a video by a white brother named Beau on RUclips covering this very topic. This knowledge of the past has me feeling proud and empowered at the site of watermelons now.
This is rich and amazing African American culinary history. 🙌🏾
My family grew watermelon for Walmart. I leaned not to eat watermelon until the fourth and not after August. Short eating time , right
What happened to the farm? Are they still growing something?
Revive that family LEGACY!!! Good Money.✊🏾💪🏾
Wow, it's mid July and mine aren't even full size yet! It'll be dang near Aug till they're ready.
First, I love Carla..I've been a fan for years. Her energy is beautiful. Next, as a little girl my paternal grandmother would give me watermelon and add salt. I NEVER understood why until I get older that salt is what the old folks would use to make it sweet. However, I never knew how to pick a good watermelon. I knew about the thump test and the yellow bottom but not the dullness. Thanks Carla, for bringing the history on watermelon. I LOVE it will eat it anywhere, I don't care who is watching.
Thanks for sharing!!
As a child l LOVED Watermelon but when l got pregnant with my daughter l couldn't eat it or smell it. However, my daughter has always loved it she still enjoys it with her children and l still can't eat it smh. 😔
Sorry to hear that. I LOVE it (as you can see).
I CRAVED watermelon during my 1st pregnancy and ate it daily. I knew which markets near my office and clients' homes sold it presliced so I could get my fix!
@@sparker7768 l miss eating it. When l see my daughter chomping down on it l always give her the side eye lol.
I got some in my fridge right now, I ain't ashamed of nothing. It saved me in the heat on my way from school and didn't have much for food and drink.
Give it up for Newark NJ!! I'm a Jersey girl, woman
Loving a good ripe, watermelon! Strawberry is #2, #3, is blueberry!!
@Professor Karen Hunter one of the first films ever made was by Thomas Edison, "Watermelon Eating Contest"(1896). This campaign help sale the stereotype of our people as shiftless watermelon eaters'.
Also when my Mother worked fields with her Mother as a child they planted watermelons to use as a snack / refreshment. Never been ashamed of the power and intelligence of black folk. My Mother 7 years old working beside her Mother and family earning money for the household. To me there is nothing shameful about farm labor and the skill to grow and feed the world. Accept our glorious skilled history. The chicken was fried to so we could wrap it in paper for our travels to work and school. My Dad use to bring back watermelon from Alabama / Tennessee black farmers every summer until he passed in 2016. Blessings ! Yes !! I love it !!
Watermelon is Mother Nature’s finest.
Whenever I bust one open it’s my breakfast, lunch, supper(from the south) and snack.
24/7 BLACK!
Falling in love again and deeper with BLACK CULTURE!
KNOWLEDGE IS FREEDOM
Yes, it is!
Unfortunately due to all that's going on we could not keep our Sirius XM in our truck. Thank you for using this platform that free. My 3 children including 12 yr old twin boys and a 13 yr old girl loved listening to The Karen Humter Show! Now they can see it on youtube...
We still miss it in the car though.
awesome, Malkah! Here is a link to 3 months on the app (you can pull it through your phone through bluetooth): streaming.siriusxm.com/onboarding/?/flepz=true&campaign=khunter30#_frmEverestAccountLookup
@@KarenHunterShowOmgoodness. Thank you so much! Now my children can help me figure out how to work this app thing.. LOL
Appreciate it and all you share. Between Dr.Carr and Carla, who needs anything else!?
@@Verlyn4windsmusic LMAO!
@@KarenHunterShow for the record, my husband and I homeschool and garden. We have a "watermelon patch" growing and we expect at least 50 melons. Wish I could post pics here to motivate others.
@@Verlyn4windsmusic that's awesome!
I only want Watermelon with seeds!
I grew up on pickle watermelon. My grandmother and one my great aunt’s made it. It was so good.
Isn’t watermelon pickle good ? My mother made some watermelon preserve one year it was delicious 🤤 .
Gloria Cook what I can remember it was delicious.
My mom said growing up they used to take the rind and make jelly.
Watermelon is not only delicious, it’s a very healthy food! Being high in lycopene, it is particularly beneficial in preventing prostate cancer which Black men suffer from disproportionately.
I'm from North Carolina, and my mother always pickled watermelon rind, and canned it.
I LOVE Watermelon! Iced cold, sweet and delicious!😋🍉❄️
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So good!
Wow!! Just tuned in. Carla gave Facts! I just picked a 🍉 from a farmers market in South Jersey. I recall tbe watermelon trucks here in Phila. Lime-Zest game changer.. Thank-you Karen Hunter for providing a platform for extended knowledge. 👏🏾✊🏾
Oh wow!
I love watermelon, having a hard time finding seeded watermelon though.
Thank you for this video. There are several points I’d add, which I’m surprised were glossed over. 1) Pickled or preserved watermelon rind-in addition to being a southern accoutrement like chow chow-is a highly nutritious. I’m surprised Carla didn’t linger on the importance of and popularity of pickling and preserving in the south. It is not a white thing. 2) She didn’t distinguish SEEDED and SEEDLESS watermelons. Always get SEEDED. 3) Watermelon/melons in general should optimally be consumed without any other fruits to aid proper digestion. Eat only it and wait about 20 mins before adding other fruits, ideally. 4) This is a reminder that there’s beautiful YELLOW watermelon, too. 5) Lastly, folks underestimate the grueling labor it takes to grow this fruit and harvest it. It is SERIOUS work. And, yes, take back the narrative of watermelon and black folks! Smh. Just to think that the ugly tentacles of racism have twisted even this part of our story. It is a wonderful, African foodstuff.
My pleasure!
The medicinal properties of watermelon and bananas,are well known in science,wonder why they push the hate
Pickled watermelon rind is yummy 🤗
Love Love watermelon, thank you ladies for giving us great insight!!
Now my dad grew watermelons, give you a little secret of his. He would take the seeds soak in sugar water, dry them before planting the seed,
SWEET SWEET Melons they became.
Not much excites me nowadays except for these type of conversations/information
Nice!
Yes WE ARE RECLAIMING IT ALL THAT IS OURS🖤🖤🖤
When I was pregnant with my son, my only cravings were watermelon and ice. I was lucky because my son was born in August, lol. Watermelon is delicious. Thanks to Carla for the info and thanks to you, Karen for always having amazing guests.
I legit walked to the grocery after watching this video!
Another great show! Pen & paper in hand!!! I had no idea of the origin of watermelon. I love how Carla just says things like you can just do a quick pickling or a simple syrup and it will be fabulous😳. Sis, we can’t cook like you! 😊. Appreciate u both 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
You are so welcome!
I absolutely LOVE watermelon and it eat without shame.
This Show Is So On Point! I Always Was Turned Off By Watermelons As A Youngster. Being 30 Now I See How The Mental Conditioning Of Our Times Played A Subconscious Role In That Dismissal. I Always Loved Strawberries!! Blessed To Connect The Dots!! My Mama Love Watermelon& Last Year I Started Eating Them& Have Not Stopped!! Many Ways To Protest!!
Yay I love watermelon but I’m old enough to remember how the media selected this fruit to make us ashamed to enjoy it. However, they way you put your comment together is everything to me. You have hit the nail right on the head!!!!
Waiting on the yellow Melons 🍈 to come my way❤️💜💜🖤
Yesssss yellow meat
We're growing our own watermelon, 3 types, including yellow meat. In the front yard lol! Everybody who comes by comments and compliments.
And everybody loves watermelon. Ppl got to stop playing with that stereotype. It's my white neighbors stealing my melons lol!
Pickled watermelon rinds ARE THE BEST!! NC STYLE!!!
“We be drunkin’, watermelon” Thank you Beyoncé!
I know some people may not recognize or appreciate the hidden message you share with your listeners daily, but I do. I have learned so much from you and the guests that you bring on your show. These last few days have taught me to be willing to lean into your Vision with sure confidence and faith and always allow yourself to have the will to gain a multifarious wealth of knowledge and plan and strategize in such peculiar way, when you are pursuing your Dreams and Visions. This has encouraged to believe they can manifest supernaturally the way God intended them to be during our journey of life. I Thank you Professor Hunter and Chef Hall as well. Great commentary as always!!!
As a kid I couldn't understand how white people didn't love watermelon and sweet potato pie. My elders would always say white people crazy. Oh ok. Didn't know it came from Africa either. Always learn something from Karen's show
Some say black pepper makes it sweeter, I’ve tried it....not bad.
We used salt.
Yes pepper and salt. 💯
Sprinkle just a "tanch" on it.
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@@thaxtonwaters8561grandma's hands...after you wash out the 'zinc'...lmmo...
Black pepper, feta cheese, olive oil and fresh mint!!!!!