by Andrew Warnes From the publisher: Barbecue is a word that means different things to different people. It can be a verb or a noun. It can be pulled pork […]
Tag: African-American
African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture
edited by Anne L. Bower From the publisher: Ranging from seventeenth-century West African fare to contemporary fusion dishes using soul food ingredients, the essays in this book provide an introduction […]
First African-American to dine at White House
A month after he became President with the assassination of William McKinley in 1901, 42-year old Theodore Roosevelt invited 45-year old Booker T. Washington at the last minute to stay […]
Iron Pots & Wooden Spoons: Africa’s Gifts to New World Cooking
by Jessica B. Harris From the publisher: Cajun, Creole, and Caribbean dishes all have their roots in the cooking of West and Central Africa; the peanuts, sweet potatoes, rice, cassava, […]
Enslaved children’s diet in 1850s Virginia
Educator Booker T. Washington, who spent his first nine years as an enslaved child in Virginia, wrote in his autobiographies about how the uncertainty of being fed breakfast led to […]
Green Books guided black Americans to welcoming restaurants and inns
“Prior to the arrival of the Green Book, Black Americans relied on the kindness of strangers – also Black – when traveling. Until the 1960s, Jim Crow laws in Southern […]
To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South
by Angela Jill Cooley From the publisher: This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, […]
Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning
by Rafia Zafar From the publisher: Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within […]
President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families
by Adrian Miller From the publisher: James Beard award–winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, […]
Ex-slave Nancy Green becomes “Aunt Jemima”
The R.T. Davis Milling Company, new owner of the Aunt Jemima brand of self-rising pancake flour in 1890, decided to search for an African-American woman to hire as a living trademark […]