#ReadInColor: Soul Food Cookbooks | Haltom City Public Library

1) Carla Hall's soul food: everyday and celebration

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Hall takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a fresh, lip-smackin' look at America's favorite comfort cuisine. She traces soul food's history from Africa and the Caribbean to the American South and shows that, traditionally a plant-based cuisine, everyday soul food is full of veggie goodness. Offering distinctive Southern flavors using farm-fresh ingredients, the results are light, healthy, seasonal dishes with big, satisfying tastes. --...

2) Spiritually Fabulous Soul Food: Recipes For The Soul

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Memnon, Michelle

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Spiritually Fabulous Soul Food is an inspirational guide to empower women to live a purposeful and fruitful life. This recipe book is filled with powerful, short daily messages that are instilled with God's Word. Ladies, it is time for you to reap God's blessings and live your best life now!

3) Cooking With Ms. Larthy: Life Lessons in Soul and Soul Food

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Graves, Tom

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During the summer of 2016 author and journalist Tom Graves was exasperated after ruining his third batch of fried catfish that season. Recently divorced and having to cook for himself he thought he'd like to get cooking lessons from an elderly African American lady who would teach him her kitchen secrets. His favorite food by far was soul food, which he found similar to the Southern country cuisine he'd been raised on. He did not want a chef to give...

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

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Twitty, Michael W

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A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry-both black and white-through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race....

5) Jubilee: recipes from two centuries of African American cooking

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Tipton-Martin, Toni

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"More than 100 recipes that paint a rich, varied picture of the true history of African American cooking--from a James Beard Award-winning food writer"--Amazon.com. Throughout her career Tipton-Martin has shed new light on the history, breadth, and depth of African American cuisine, and introduced us to black cooks who established much of what is considered to be our national cuisine. Here she brings these masters into our kitchens. Through recipes...

6) Sweet Home Cafe cookbook: a celebration of African American cooking

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Lukas, Albert

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Since the 2016 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, its Sweet Home Café has become a destination in its own right. Showcasing African American contributions to American cuisine, the café offers favorite dishes made with locally sourced ingredients, adding modern flavors and contemporary twists on classics. With African, Caribbean, and European influences blended together, the recipes illustrate the pivotal-- and...

7) Vegan Soul kitchen: fresh, healthy, and creative African American cuisine

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Terry, Bryant

8) The rise: Black cooks and the soul of American food

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Samuelsson, Marcus

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It is long past time to recognize Black excellence in the culinary world the same way it has been celebrated in the worlds of music, sports, literature, film, and the arts. Black cooks and creators have led American culture forward with indelible contributions of artistry and ingenuity from the start, but Black authorship has been consistently erased from the story of American food. Now, in The Rise, chef, author, and television star Marcus Samuelsson...

9) The new soul food cookbook : healthier recipes for traditional favorites

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Jones, Wilbert

10) Black food: stories, art, & recipes from across the African diaspora

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"A beautiful, rich, and groundbreaking book exploring Black foodways within America and around the world, curated by food activist and author of Vegetable Kingdom Bryant Terry"--

11) The kitchen diva!: the new African-American kitchen

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Medearis, Angela Shelf

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With recipes from Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, this book covers classic recipes as well as more contemporary fare and several vegetarian dishes.

12) Sylvia's family soul food cookbook: from Hemingway, South Carolina to Harlem

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Woods, Sylvia

13) Real men cook: rites, rituals, and recipes for living

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Moyo, Karega Kofi

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Shares recipes and stories of fifty African-American men whose love for family traditions and community building have been reflected in their cooking.

14) Soul food love: healthy recipes inspired by one hundred years of cooking in a Black family

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Randall, Alice

15) Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning

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Zafar, Rafia

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Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. Recipes for Respect bridges this gap, illuminating the role of foodways in African American culture as well as the contributions of Black cooks and chefs to what has been considered the mainstream....

16) An Irresistible History of Southern Food: Four Centuries of Black-Eyed Peas, Collard Greens and Whole Hog Barbecue

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McDaniel, Rick

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American Palate

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Fried chicken, rice and gravy, sweet potatoes, collard greens and spoon bread - all good old fashioned, down-home southern foods, right? Wrong. The fried chicken and collard greens are African, the rice is from Madagascar, the sweet potatoes came to Virginia from the Peruvian Andes via Spain, and the spoon bread is a marriage of Native American corn with the French soufflé technique thought up by skilled African American cooks. Food historian Rick...

17) A Date with a Dish: Classic African-American Recipes

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DeKnight, Freda

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An outstanding feast of distinctively American culinary genius, this comprehensive collection of authentic African-American recipes was assembled by a well-known cooking columnist for Ebony magazine. Freda DeKnight was baking bread and biscuits by the time she was five years old. In the course of her career as a teacher and counselor of culinary arts, she assembled and shared thousands of fabulous recipes, the best of which appear here. Filled with...

18) The World in a Skillet: A Food Lover's Tour of the New American South

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Knipple, Paul

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Paul and Angela Knipple's culinary tour of the contemporary American South celebrates the flourishing of global food traditions "down home." Drawing on the authors' firsthand interviews and reportage from Richmond to Mobile and enriched by a cornucopia of photographs and original recipes, the book presents engaging, poignant profiles of a host of first-generation immigrants from all over the world who are cooking their way through life as professional...