This recipe was fantastic! My mom had never had tomato bisque and she had more than one bowl. In fact, everyone had more than one helping. I used fat free half and half, and added a little sugar to cut any acid in the tomato paste. Would love to try this with fresh basil added.
Simon Alexander Haley was a professor of agriculture, and father of writer Alex Haley. He was born in Savannah, Tennessee to farmer Alec Haley and his wife Queen Haley. Both his parents were born as slaves, and both apparently fathered by white slave owners. Simon attended Alcorn College in Mississippi at age 15.
She's broken a lot of barriers. Haley is the first woman and person of an ethnic minority to serve as the governor of South Carolina. Born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa, Haley is the daughter of immigrants who moved to South Carolina from Punjab, India, in 1969. A New York Times profile from 2010 recounts that her family were the first Indian immigrants that residents of Bamberg, South Carolina, had ever seen.