Kelly Marshall for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Roscoe Betsill. Prop Stylist: Paige Hicks.

Juneteenth Recipes Curated by Nicole Taylor

The author of the cookbook “Watermelon and Red Birds” selects dishes for Juneteenth, June 19, the holiday that remembers the day when enslaved Africans in Texas learned that they were free, two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.