Foodways Vol. 5 — Packed to Travel: Food and the Great Migration (Standard Companion Edition — EPUB)

Under segregation, Black train travelers could not count on the dining car — so families packed fried chicken, sandwiches, and cake in shoeboxes for the journey, food built to keep without refrigeration and to travel with dignity. This volume follows what millions of Black Southerners carried between 1916 and 1970 — gumbo knowledge, hot sauce, dried beans, and church-cook training — into Chicago's Bronzeville, Harlem, Detroit, Houston, and the West, and shows substitution working as creativity: what changed on new shelves, and what cooks refused to let change. Return trips south kept the tastes in circulation, until the food of the Migration got its modern name — the subject of Volume 6.

Inside the Standard Companion Edition — EPUB: the complete book, all 6 chapters, full text, readable on any e-reader, tablet, or phone; every chapter closes with its sources and a method note — contested origins labeled contested, never settled by assertion. For educators: a TEKS correlation sheet for this volume is available with the Foodways Educator materials — claiming only what the sheet claims; eligible, not district-adopted.

The chapters: The Shoebox Lunch · What They Left, What They Carried · Chicago: The Table at the End of the Illinois Central · Harlem, Detroit, and the West · Houston Holds Both Ways · Going Back for the Taste

The Interactive Edition of this same book adds recorded narration by Marcus (75.52 minutes), a chronological timeline, and a 10-question quiz. The hands that fed America — named at last. All receipts.