Presents over four hundred recipes for traditional and other favorite African-American foods, covering main dishes, meats, vegetables, salads, breads, soups, sweets, cakes, snacks, and appetizers, and including historic anecdotes and sayings.

Offering remembrances and remedies--as well as 75 all-new recipes by Sallie Ann Robinson from the unique Gullah islands off the South Carolina coast--this work highlights Gullah cooking, which is a mix of African, European, and Native American influences. Sallie Ann Robinson was born and reared on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for their West African-influenced Gullah culture. With this cookbook, Robinson highlights...

By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi had opened|and closed|one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company with twenty thousand dollars that he made from selling candy on the subway, yet he|d been told he would never make it on television because his cooking wasn|t |Southern| enough. In this inspiring memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, he shares the remarkable story...

"Rising star chef and food activist Bryant Terry is known for his simple, creative, and delicious vegan dishes inspired by African American cooking. In this ... cookbook, he remixes foods of the African diaspora to create ... recipes such as corn maque choux-stuffed Jamaican patties with hot pepper sauce, berebere-spiced black-eyed pea sliders, crispy teff-grit cakes with eggplant, tomatoes, and peanuts, and groundnut stew with winter vegetables and...

In this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and innovations that make up the soul food tradition. Focusing each chapter on the culinary and social history of one dish--such as fried chicken, chitlins, yams, greens, and "red drinks"--Miller uncovers how it got on the soul food plate and what it means for African American culture and identity. Miller argues that the story is more complex and surprising...

The fragrances, emotions, and tastes of the famous Tuskegee Institute, founded by former slave Booker T. Washington in 1881, are evoked in this collage of personal vignettes, pictorial accounts, poetry, and more than 200 traditional recipes. The history and entertaining information in these pages conjures the spirit of the small southern town of Tuskegee, Alabama, that for over 100 years has been a mecca and center of progress and education for African...