In 2016, the Library of Congress posted Rosa Parks' personal documents online for the first time. Buried under postcards from Martin Luther King and lists of volunteers for the Montgomery Bus Boycott was a pancake recipe, written on the back of an envelope — which included the addition of peanut butter to the batter. On this week's episode, I visit Adrienne Cannon, a specialist in African-American history at the Library of Congress, to see the recipe firsthand. Then I travel to Detroit to share a meal with Mrs. Parks' nieces, who published their aunt's favorite recipes in a book, Our Auntie Rosa. Finally, I head to Nicole Taylor's kitchen to make those peanut butter pancakes.
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