Pistachio Rose Semolina

Morning tea cake. Pistachio rose semolina with a light lemon glaze and a twist of almond.

This powerful little yellow cake was inspired by the Lineage podcast’s Sonia Sanchez interview. Sonia is an iconic poet. In addition to being a founder of the National Black Arts Movement and the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University, where she held the Laura Carnell Chair in English, Sonia is an award-winning writer of sixteen books, including Morning Haiku, Wounded in the House of a Friend, and Shake Loose My Skin. A new volume, Collected Poems, will be released by Beacon Press this spring.

To Anita

high/yellow/black/girl
walken like the sun u be.
move on even higher.
        those who
laugh at yo/color
        have not moved
to the blackness we be about
cuz as Curtis Mayfield be sayen
we people be darker than blue
        and quite a few
of us be yellow
        all soul/shades of
blackness.
        yeah. high/yellow/black/girl
    walk yo/black/song
      cuz some of us
        be hearen yo/sweet/music.

—Sonia Sanchez