LAUNCH OF “HUMANITY UNITED IN A SCRAPPLE-ISH SANDWICH”—

A TRIBUTE TO ALL AMERICANS WHO HONOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Yasmin Points, former model, artist and owner of the tiny San Francisco restaurant My Good Pie, has something to say as we start Black History Month:

“As a black American, one thing that makes me smile is when Americans of so many colors come together in this beautiful month to honor our shared humanity. We all have interwoven histories and cultures.  Some might deny this, but as a restaurateur I know this to be true.  You see, food lays bare the evidence of how beautifully linked we all are for the better…and I have decided to show this with as much clarity as I can muster given the limited resources at my disposal.”

On February 1st, in tribute to how many Americans join us in the celebration of Black History Month, Yasmin Points and My Good Pie launch this meal that speaks to our shared humanity:

“Humanity United in a Scrapple-ish Sandwich”

The greatest of truths of human history is that our ancestors have migrated, traded, exchanged knowledge and shared beds with one another for thousands of years…and in each and every one of those years, food has moved and evolved with them, documenting the bumpy progress of our common human history.

Scrapple, known by the Pennsylvania Dutch as Panhaas, was a Low German import to our Mid-Atlantic States that my great grandmother served farther south, with its own twist and name, in her historical African American community of Statesville North Carolina.  Sourdough, which we serve our sandwich on, was the first-known leavened bread in human history dating back to ancient Egypt in at least 1,000 BC and that later spread along the roads of the Roman Empire.  And that is just the start of it.  In consuming “Humanity United in a Scrapple-ish Sandwich”, you will feel in your belly ingredients from ancient Africa, India, China and Yankee-era America, ingredients that we trace from their origins over time and space into our collective American diets, affirming the narrative of how much more we all share than not on this lovely planet of ours.

Says Yasmin Points: “Mine is an ‘interracial’ marriage.  It’s such a funny term.  When I look at my children, I see black, I see white and also see thousands of years of married histories and interwoven peoples that brought these beautiful children to me today.  Each of us is unique and we survive on this planet together as one people born of many.  This humble sandwich is for my children and for all of our collective children.  Thank you for honoring Black History Month…we honor you back for doing so.”

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To support the role of food in human and American history, we will donate a dollar for each Humanity United sandwich sold during Black History Month to the American Food History Project at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History in Washington, DC.

To try “Humanity United in a Scrapple-ish Sandwich”, please visit us at 300 De Haro Street here in the Potrero Hill area of San Francisco or call us at (415) 890-3334 or email us at yasminapoints@gmail.com to place a catering or large order.  Follow us on Instagram at @mygoodpie.  We are tiny, but still have heart:)