chitterlings

The collages mix color and monochrome elements and playfully ignore real-world proportion and perspective; they highlight signs and book covers, from “fresh! hog jaws & chitterlings” to an edition of the Bible.

Sampling, however, is also born of the Black vernacular tradition that gave us chitterlings, jazz and, yes, hip-hop.

Unfortunately, she added, "there's no plant-based substitute for chitterlings."

But some African American diets, especially those traced back to slavery, are based on the "soul food" concept, which comes from the practice of making meals from leftover scraps that slave owners would allow them to eat — foods such as pig intestines, called chitterlings.

“If you didn’t know anything about black or Southern culture, you’d probably read ‘chitterlings,’” she said of the soul-food dish.