# Annabelle Tometich and Crystal Wilkinson: Food, Family, Community

Annabelle Tometich shares the ways and struggles of her Filipino mother in “The Mango Tree” and Crystal Wilkinson’s “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts” collects the memories and recipes of her Black Appalachian forebears. They discussed their work with Anna Spiegel at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 1 h 2 min
- By: Spiegel, Anna
- Genres: Children's
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10228/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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