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Free To Be Vee

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I have great news! My second, self-published, Free To Be Vee book is finally here! It took me a while to write this book, what happened to me in previous post  and my mom editing and making corrections. It is now available on Amazon and I hope to put it out on other outlets. After all of the hard work I did on KDP , I am so relived to finally have this book released. I might do an audiobook version this book as well as my debut book, The Eclectic Mind of Vee . Happy Reading!  

What I Have Been Through

 You all would not believe what I have during the last time I have posted. It all start sometime around late March. I wake up in felt pain in my right calf. The next day, the pain moved to my knee and I had trouble lifting it all the way. The pain so excruciating as I tried to sit in the bathtub.  My mom took me to urgent and the nurses put me in a wheelchair. The doctor diagnosed me with have a knee sprain. However, I wasn't able to get on the urgent care's x-ray machine because of my size. So she referred me  to an orthopedic doctor and an appointment for Monday afternoon. My knee felt like it locked up on me as I was getting a pedicure that weekend. After my mom went to work on that Monday morning, the pain spread to my knee, calf and foot. The pain was so excruciating I could not wait for 3:00 pm set for that afternoon. A nurse from urgent care called for a follow-up. She distracted with questions as I waited for an ambulance. The EMTs wrapped a bandage on my injured area a

Fried Chicken and Watermelon

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  First of all, I would like to wish you all a Happy Black History Month. There two foods are that have been well known in the black community. Those foods just happened to be fried chicken and watermelon. Whenever you think of these foods, people would think stereotypes of black people. But believe it or not, fried chicken and watermelon has a very interesting history. A history I was surprised to learn about. Fried chicken as a word was first used in 19th century America. However, this food has Scottish and West African origins. The Scottish used cooking technique of called frittering which meant that poultry was coated batter or flour and deep fried in lard. Many peoples of West Africa cooked their chicken palm oil but unlike the Scottish they seasoned their poultry highly. The slavery trade in the American South. African slaves were allowed to raise their own chicken and fried them on special occasions. Both of the cooking techniques from the Scottish and West Africans we used in c