The Medical Society of Eastern Pennsylvania's Young Physicians Committee Presents Routes, Roots, and Recipes. This Black History Month, join us on February 28, 2026 from 5 to 9 PM as we gather around the table to honor the stories carried through food. Routes, Roots, and Recipes is a celebration of the culinary traditions of the African diaspora, tracing how memory, survival, creativity, and joy have been preserved through recipes passed hand to hand, generation to generation.
From West African staples to Caribbean kitchens, Southern soul food, and contemporary Black cuisine, this event explores how food has long been a vessel for history, resistance, and belonging. Each dish reflects migration and adaptation, shaped by resilience and ingenuity in the face of displacement and change.
Through food, storytelling, and shared conversation, participants are invited to experience history not only as something learned, but something tasted. This gathering centers Black foodways as living culture and honors the cooks, farmers, and communities who transformed necessity into nourishment and tradition into legacy.
Come eat, listen, and reflect. History is on the menu.
When: February 28, 2026
Time: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: 220 South 47th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19139
Registration is required to attend. Please RSVP by February 27, 2026.
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