Peggy Brunache Explained

Peggy Brunache is a Haitian American food historian and archaeologist. She currently lives in Perth and lectures at the University of Glasgow on the History of Atlantic slavery. Brunache has contributed to various BBC programs and is involved with an annual food festival in Perth called the Southern Fried Food Festival.

Biography

Brunache is Haitian American in heritage and grew up in Miami, Florida.^[1] In college, she pursued anthropology and then became involved with a field school run by Kathleen Deagan at St. Augustine, Florida.^[2] Brunache earned her master's degree at the University of South Carolina and then earned her doctorate at the University of Texas. While in South Carolina, Brunache missed the food she had grown up with and began to cook for herself.^[3]

In May 2006, she moved to Scotland to be closer to Andy Shearer. Brunache and Shearer met in 2005 at South by Southwest, and after meeting, they stayed in touch. They were married in December 2006. Together they started a family and she finished up her thesis which focused on women in slavery in Guadeloupe and their cuisine.^[4] Her work for her thesis pointed to the origins of modern Creole cuisine and Soul Food. Through her work on women in La Mahaudière, she discovered that slave women did most of the cooking and were very involved in the island markets.^[5] These women significantly contributed to the cuisine of the region.

Around 2007, Shearer and Brunache started the Perth Southern Fried Food Festival. The festival celebrates American food from the Southern United States. She also has contributed to BBC Radio Scotland's The Kitchen Café.^[6] She has also been featured in the BBC Two history series, A Black History of Britain.^[7]

Brunache lectures at the University of Glasgow.^[8] In 2016, she was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship to do an excavation of the first integrated school in Ohio, the Parker Academy.^[9]

External links

• University of Dundee page
• Dr. Peggy Brunache Discusses the 8th Annual Southern Fried Festival (2015 video)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sumayya Usmani's culinary journey: a Haitian love story. Usmani. Sumayya. 9 September 2017. The Herald Scotland. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20180410171830/http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15525967.Sumayya_Usmani__39_s_culinary_journey__a_Haitian_love_story/. 10 April 2018. 2018-04-10.
2. Web site: Raising Horizons: Unearthing Identity. TrowelBlazers. 27 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170914231156/http://trowelblazers.com/raising-horizons-unearthing-identity/. 14 September 2017. live. 2018-04-10.
3. News: Soul Food and the Southern Fried Woman. Martin. Nicola. 23 July 2014. Small City BIG Personality. 2018-04-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20180410173805/https://www.smallcitybigpersonality.co.uk/Peggy-Brunache. 10 April 2018.
4. Enslaved Women, Foodways, and Identity Formation: The Archaeology of Habitation La Mahaudière, Guadeloupe, circa Late-18th Century to Mid-19th Century. Brunache. Peggy Lucienne. 2011. PhD dissertation . University of Texas at Austin. 16 May 2023 . 2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4119.
5. Book: Arcangeli, Myriam. Sherds of History: Domestic Life in Colonial Guadeloupe. University Press of Florida. 2015. 9780813055206. Gainesville. 97–98. 897905581 . subscription . Project MUSE.
6. Web site: The Kitchen Café - Peggy Brunache - BBC Radio Scotland. BBC. en-GB. 2018-04-11.
7. Web site: A Black History of Britain – BBC series. 31 August 2016. Scottish Centre for Global History. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20180410174100/https://globalhistory.org.uk/2016/08/a-black-history-of-britain-bbc-series/. 10 April 2018. 2018-04-10.
8. Web site: Oral History Project. Society of Black Archaeologists. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20170916025441/http://www.societyofblackarchaeologists.com/oral-history-project.html. 16 September 2017. dead. 2018-04-10.
9. News: NKU to Keep Uncovering Ohio's First Integrated School. 14 July 2016. The Cincinnati Enquirer. 2018-04-10. en. Newspapers.com.