by Jennifer Jensen Wallach From the publisher: Beginning with an examination of West African food traditions during the era of the transatlantic slave trade and ending with a discussion of […]
Tag: African-American
Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama
edited by Jennifer Jensen Wallach From the publisher: The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food […]
Bound to the Fire: the history of enslaved cooks who helped invent American cuisine
by Kelley Fanto Deetz From the publisher: In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of “Aunt Jemima” and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found […]
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
by Jessica B. Harris From the publisher: Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa […]
Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
by Michael W. Twitty From the publisher: A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food […]
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960
by Rebecca Sharpless From the publisher: As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs […]
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
by Psyche A. Williams-Forson From the publisher: Chicken–both the bird and the food–has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has […]
Black Rice: a history of rice and enslaved Africans
by Judith A. Carney From the publisher: Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the […]