Local Black-owned restaurants, new events and eating ants

This episode finds us hitting the home stretch of Black History Month, which means it's time to get moving and support Milwaukee's Black-owned restaurants (something we should do year-round). Ann gave us all a helping hand by putting together a sizable list for Milwaukee Magazine that includes everything from soul food to barbecue and Ethiopian to Jamaican.

Toward the end of the podcast, we also highlight a pair of cookbooks from Black women that literally span more than a century: a new edition of Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook (first published in 1866) and a compilation of Gullah Geechee recipes collected by Emily Meggett, who was 89 when the book came out in 2022.

In other culinary news from around Milwaukee:

• The mad scientists at Discourse are serving up real ants on a log right downstairs from where I'm writing this at Radio Milwaukee.
• Milwaukee Public Market will hold a very rhyme-y Soup, Stew & Brew Fest on March 5.
• Dan Jacobs and Dan Van Rite will again welcome a bunch of their famous chef buddies for a collaborative dinner series at Dandan and EsterEv.
• Fuel Cafe officially hit empty after aprubtly announcing its permanent closing Sunday.
• Milwaukee's oldest Black biker bar has shifted gears and will soon become Cajun Soul MKE.