At Queens County Farm Museum, *Colonial Culinary: West African Pepper Pot Stew* frames history through a kid-friendly, rock/pop live performance. It traces how West African cooking knowledge moved through colonial-era New York and the wider Atlantic world, using the pepper pot as a practical lens on migration, labor, and adaptation. The setting matters: the borough’s oldest working farm underscores how foodways survive outside textbooks. The show’s clearest insight is that a recipe can function as an archive, even when written records are thin.