As Frances helps her grandmother with New Year's Day dinner, Grandma teachers her the orgins of the different dishes and soul food they prepare together. Includes a recipe for Fay's Fabulous Pralines.
Eight-year-old David and his family gather at Grandma's house in Galveston, Texas, for a cherished family tradition--Grandma's annual retelling of the story of Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.