African-American experience posts

African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture

Read More and buy»

Black Rice: a history of rice and enslaved Africans

Read More and buy»

Bound to the Fire: the history of enslaved cooks who helped invent American cuisine

Read More and buy»

Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power

Read More and buy»

Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

Read More and buy»

Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960

Read More and buy»

Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama

Read More and buy»

Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life

Read More and buy»

High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America

Read More and buy»

Iron Pots & Wooden Spoons: Africa’s Gifts to New World Cooking

Read More and buy»

President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families

Read More and buy»

Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning

Read More and buy»

Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America’s First Food

Read More and buy»

To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South

Read More and buy»