Potlikker

The pot held the greens, and the liquid left in it carried what the leaves had given up: iron, vitamin A, vitamin C. Enslaved people in the South drank it for that concentrated nourishment, and cooks crumbled hard-baked cornpone into it. A dish made of what was left reached the Senate floor in 1935, when Huey Long worked a treatise on potlikker into a fifteen-hour filibuster, two years after defining it in his autobiography Every Man a King.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Germantown Colony Museum — 19 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.
• Magnolia Square and the Columbia County Courthouse — 22 mi
  The 1906 courthouse and square at the center of a town founded in 1853, where oil came in 1922, Southern Arkansas University grew from a farm school, and Jordan Jameson was burned to death in 1919.

More markers nearby

• Carter G. Woodson High School — 0.6 mi
• Claiborne Parish Court House — 13 mi
• Sheriff Pat Garrett — 13 mi
• Homer College (CME) / African American Education in Louisiana — 14 mi