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Black-Owned Meadery Taps French Caribbean Culture on the Kansas Prairie Black-Owned Meadery Taps French Caribbean Culture on the Kansas Prairie Eric Depradine Breaks Ground in Alcohol Production Share this story Published February 11th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: Three bottles of mead produced by Zydeco Meadery in Wamego, Kansas. (Contibuted | Eric Depradine) As a child, it wasn’t Christmas until Eric Depradine’s grandmother uncorked her home-brewed hibiscus drink. Made from the vibrant magenta-colored tropical bloom, the drink had a tart cranberry-like flavor. An immigrant from the village of Manzanilla on the island of Trinidad, Ena Depradine (pronounced deh-PRAH-deen) settled in Boston in the 1970s, and she brought with her knowledge of how to make a variety of fermented beverages using honey, fruits, flowers, herbs and spices.

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