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Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens speaks at a signing event for the 2023 local option sales tax agreement held at the Central Library in Atlanta Dec. 14.
County, city leaders approve tax splits By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com
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Clarissa Clifton leads an open-hearth cooking demonstration Dec. 17 at Smith Plantation in Roswell, where she’s volunteered for the past five years.
Food historian revives ethnic cuisine By DELANEY TARR delaney@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga.— Clarissa Clifton spends her Saturdays over a roaring fire, stirring pots in historical attire. For the past five years, she’s been a food historian at Smith Plantation, where she volunteers twice a month to cook her specialty— historical Southern poverty food. “I cook all year because this is my passion,” Clifton said. “I love doing this.” Clifton, a Brookhaven resident,
practices open-hearth cooking, a method of preparing food over an open fire, with cooking pots suspended over the flame. The setup is simple, but the pots can produce everything from stews to biscuits. It’s Clifton’s preferred way to cook. Clifton’s food background began in South Georgia, where she was born and raised. She grew up watching her family cook traditional recipes and later came to love their significance. “The area that I’m from is South
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Georgia, it’s probably why we’re so high in Nigerian,” Clifton said. “We probably came over very late in the slave trade.” The food she makes is traditional, often pulling from recipes from slaves and poor people in the South. Much of it is familiar, though, as traditional Black American cooking has risen in popularity – colored greens and shrimp and grits are recipes Clifton specifically acknowledges. On Dec. 17, Clifton prepared a meal
ATLANTA — After months of turbulent negotiations, threats and conflict, Fulton County and it’s 15 cities have finalized an agreement over the $3 billion local option sales tax. The LOST one-penny sales tax is used by local governments to fund services like public safety, parks and recreation and libraries, and by county governments to fund state-mandated services like county courts, jails, health departments and elections. Signed by city and county representatives at an event held at the Central Library in Atlanta Dec. 14, this agreement will grant about 10 percent of total revenues generated over the 10-year life of LOST to Fulton County and the
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