WHRO Time Machine Video
The Great Depression In Hampton Roads: Queen Esther Taylor
Special | 1m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
A mother’s 15-cent fish meals, homemade stew, and childhood crabbing memories.
Growing up around his mother’s 15-cent fish restaurant, our guest recalls daily meals of fish, white potatoes, and cornbread. He shares how leftover fish bones became beloved stew, childhood days spent fishing and crabbing, and the community joy her cooking inspired.
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WHRO Time Machine Video is a local public television program presented by WHRO Public Media
WHRO Time Machine Video
The Great Depression In Hampton Roads: Queen Esther Taylor
Special | 1m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
Growing up around his mother’s 15-cent fish restaurant, our guest recalls daily meals of fish, white potatoes, and cornbread. He shares how leftover fish bones became beloved stew, childhood days spent fishing and crabbing, and the community joy her cooking inspired.
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- My journey at last, I found a friend.
- My mother owned a restaurant and she charged 15 cents meal.
She had fish, all three meals, and that fish was what?
That fish, white potatoes, cornbread.
And she did a good job and see where the fish house would do.
They would give her the bones, like they fill the fish and they would give her that, those bones and she'd make that stew.
Oh yes, she'd make that fish stew.
And that everybody just loved it.
The children over there had fun because they had fun fishing and crabbing, but I thought crabs was just, and fish.
My mother had fish every day.
So you know how, how much I could for fish?
Oh no.
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WHRO Time Machine Video is a local public television program presented by WHRO Public Media