Chitlin Market and Company records
Object Details
- Scope and Contents note
- The Chitlin Market and Company was founded in 1995 in Hyattsville, Maryland, by Shauna Renee Anderson. The collection is arranged into five series: Series 1: Career, Series 2: Publicity and Marketing, Series 3: Photographs, Series 4: Audiovisual, and Series 5: Publications. Series 1: Career consists of correspondence and business documents related to the founding and operations of Chitlin Market and Co. and Anderson's other business ventures. Series 2: Publicity and Marketing contains clippings, publications, writing, and promotional and packaging materials. Series 3: Photographs consists of 24 images of Anderson's family, business, and customers. Notable in this series is a signed photograph of singer Diana Ross. Series 4: Audiovisual consists of nine VHS and two cassette tape recordings of media coverage of Anderson's business endeavors. Series 5: Publications consists of three books, two inscribed to Anderson and one a memoir written by Anderson herself.
- Biographical/Historical note
- Shauna R. Anderson is a statistician, restaurateur, author, film producer, historian, and businesswoman. She was born in the Shaw area, Northwest Washington, DC, in 1954 to Geneva Anderson and Walter Chris Holmes. Her parents were entertainers, and her mother sang professionally under the name Jean Anderson on the Chitlin' Circuit, a network of performance venues in the eastern and southern US where African Americans could safely perform during segregation. Anderson was raised by her maternal grandmother Virginia Lee Battle, who taught her how to prepare chitlins. Anderson had a successful accounting business when she decided to revive the demand for chitlins in the early 90's. She saw a market for high-quality cleaned pork chitterlings, and knew that making them available would offset the loss of a longstanding African American culinary tradition. She founded Chitlin Market and Co., selling chitlins online across the country and from a storefront in Hyattsville, Maryland. Anderson lives in Hyattsville, Maryland, with her daughter Jonvieve, where she still operates her Chitlin Market and Company as a mail-order-only business.
- Date
- circa 1974–2006
- Extent
- 1.16 Linear feet (2 boxes)
- Provenance
- The Chitlin Market and Company records were donated to the Anacostia Community Museum in 2006 by Shauna R. Anderson.
- Rights
- The Chitlin Market and Company records are the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.
- Citation
- Chitlin Market and Company records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Shauna R. Anderson.
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Correspondence
- Audiovisual materials
- Business records
- Photographic prints
- Photographs
- Topic
- African American cookery
- African American cooks
- African American businesspeople
- African American business enterprises
- Women-owned business enterprises
- Place
- Hyattsville, (Md.)
- Identifier
- ACMA.06-019
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- Chitlin Market and Company, operations manual
- "Small Biz Briefs: Spotlight," Washington Business Journal
- "You Might Not Have the Stomach for This; It's About Chitlins," Wall Street Journal
- CNN, Chitlins by mail, VHS
- WKYS, Shauna Renee Salon, cassette
- "Cashing in on Chitlins," Washington Post
- "Chitterling Carryout," Jet magazine
- "Chitlins Made Easy"/"A new adventure for Chef Perrier - chitlins," Philadelphia Enquirer
- Cowboys in jail, cassette
- "Where to Find the Best...Chitlin Market," Washington Post
- Chitlin Market & Company business plan
- JBA Soul Food Delicacies Inc, and Chitlin Market and Company franchise offering circular
- "Castle Restoration Celebrated," Prince George's Press
- Fox News, Super Bowl Chitlins, VHS
- Heat: My Life on and off the Diamond, by Dwight Gooden
- Publications
- News Channel 8, investors for expansion, VHS
- Inspirational great-aunts, Lillian M. Turner and Henrietta Anderson, copy print
- The Chitlin Market under construction
- "Specialty meat market is cleaning up," Baltimore Sun
- "Cleaning up, Big," Emerge magazine
- "Due to the Unanticipated Demand," Washington Post
- "Chitterlings AKA Chitlins," by Shauna Anderson
- "Local chitterlings business booming," Prince George's Journal