2021-07-31
17 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News Today.
I'm Duarte Geraldino.
Every weekend we talk to the people behind the best stories on Apple News.
Plus today we're talking with best selling author Roxane Gay.
She recently wrote an article that was published in Harper's Bazaar about the pop star Kelis and why the singer decided to leave the city, buy a farm and live off the land.
You probably recognize kelis from her 2003 hit single, Milkshake.
You know the song I'm talking about?
Kelise recorded six studio albums and still performs all over the world.
But her talents and interests, they extend far beyond music.
She went to culinary school and became a chef.
Now she owns and runs a farm with her husband outside Los Angeles, and that's the focus of Gaye's piece.
I was really intrigued by the idea of a black family moving to a farm because we don't hear a lot of those kinds of stories.
Oftentimes when people decide that they're gonna go back to the land, such as it may be, it's white people.
Gaye's article in Harper's Bazaar is called How Kelis Remixed Her Life.
You can read and listen to it on Apple News with an Apple News plus subscription.
During my conversation with Gay, we talked about why Kelise started farming, the barriers between black people and homegrown food, and Gay's experiences with her own garden.
She started out by giving me a description of Calis Farm.
She has an extensive garden of all kinds of interesting foods, from kale to tomatoes, lettuces.
There are fruit trees.
She's growing olives to make her own olive oil.