{"id":99916764,"date":"2025-09-26T21:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppmco.foxtrotdev.com\/?p=99916764"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:14:38","slug":"priority-partners-celebrates-heritage-at-kunta-kinte-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ppmco.foxtrotdev.com\/?p=99916764","title":{"rendered":"Priority Partners Celebrates Heritage at Kunta Kinte Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Families, food lovers and fans of African heritage showed up by the thousands in Annapolis for the 35th Annual Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival. Once again, Priority Partners proudly participated in this unique celebration which took place on Saturday, Sept. 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visitors packed the grounds to sample a variety of foods, wander the arts and crafts kiosks and dance to live music in celebration of the cultural heritage of Africans, African Americans and Caribbean people of African descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Priority Partners hosted its popular Healthy Hacks cooking demonstration, featuring Chef Giacomo Scuito of Giacomo\u2019s Brick Oven Pizza. Part of the Priority Partners Cupboards Project, the Healthy Hacks program provides free, live cooking demonstrations that show people how they can cook easy, healthy AND affordable meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chef Scuito \u201cwowed\u201d the crowd at the Community Stage with his demonstration showing how to prepare delicious, healthy meals. Guests received tasty samples and a free cookbook of healthy, budget-friendly recipes they could make at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Priority Partners team attended the all-day event, providing visitors with free blood pressure checks, health resources and Medicaid renewal support. Visitors had the opportunity to meet with health plan representatives and community health professionals, get their flu shots, and enjoy refreshments, raffle contests and more. Priority Partners thanks Chef Scuito and the many attendees who visited our table and helped make this treasured community event a huge success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn more about the annual Kunta Kinte Festival at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuntakinte.org\/\">kuntakinte.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ppmco.foxtrotdev.com\/get-free-support\/community-health-advocates\/#events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Priority Partners Upcoming Events page<\/a>&nbsp;to learn about all our exciting events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families, food lovers and fans of African heritage showed up by the thousands in Annapolis for the 35th Annual Kunta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":99914913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"Kunta Kinte Fest, African heritage festival, Annapolis, community health event, Healthy Hacks cooking demo, free health screenings festival, cultural celebration & health, Priority Partners community outreach","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"99912681,15171,15363,15452,99915211,99915032","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99916764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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