Did you know the ap the appetizer Hushpuppies come from enslaved Africans? Yes. They were fried balls of cornmeal and were thrown out to distract the hounds from tracking them. It worked. They’ve been called Hush Puppies ever since. A chef & historian interviewed by Harvard magazine denies this as a popular fable, assuming that slaves would not have time to cook & that the onions in the recipe are obnoxious and noisome. This denial of the origin story does not take into account the fact that the recipe could’ve have changed depending on the situation that called to it. Whether you to choose to believe the widespread documented history or the griots of communities across the diaspora is up to you, the reader.