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Among dishes she has prepared are Ghana’s banku — fermented corn meal balls in a soup — as well as the spicy jollof rice enjoyed across West Africa.

The latter has been easier to find in grocery stores these days, but if you can’t find corn flour, you can just substitute for more corn meal.

The box includes a pound of beautiful blue corn meal from Ancestral Foods, a Native-owned company based in Albuquerque.

And during the 20th century, pellagra was widespread in the South where low-wage Black laborers like Flemmie’s sister Mabel lived off of salt pork, corn meal, and molasses.

You switch to eating soy porridge for breakfast, instead of the corn meal you’ve grown accustomed to.