The Best Of African Cooking

Author : Michael W. Twitty
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062876570
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cooking Gene written by Michael W. Twitty and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 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. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts

Author : Dokpe Lillian Ogunsanya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966273007
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "My Cooking" West-African Cookbook written by Dokpe Lillian Ogunsanya and published by . This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aileen Wilsen
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book South African Cooking in the USA written by Aileen Wilsen and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African cuisine is an exciting and unique blend of African, European, and Eastern cooking traditions distilled through years of diverse and dynamic culture into its own distinct style. Now, thanks to the charming and talented mother-daughter duo, Aileen Wilsen and Kathleen Farquharson, you can make all your favorite South African dishes in the right here in the States! With tips on procuring (or substituting) hard-to-find ingredients as well as accurate and reliable U.S. measurement conversions (so you'll never find yourself searching for a calculator in your kitchen cabinets!), South African Cooking in the USA is the most thorough and easy to follow South African cookbook on the market. Inside you'll find over 170 mouth-watering South African dishes, tweaked and perfected for easy and authentic preparation in American kitchens. Ranging from snacks and appetizers, to entrees and decadent desserts, the dishes in South African Cooking in the USA will inspire hundreds of varied and delicious three course meals. Some favorites include: Samoosas Peppadew dip Bunny Chow Bobotie Oxtail Stew Hot Durban Curry Monkeygland Steak Chakalaka Buttermilk Rusks Melktert Hot Cross buns …And much more! A perfect gift for ex-patriots longing for the taste of home or Americans with a fondness or interest in South Africa, South African Cooking in the USA is an integral part of any respectable cookbook collection.

Author : James C. McCann
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 089680464X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stirring the Pot written by James C. McCann and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa’s art of cooking is a key part of its history. All too often Africa is associated with famine, but in Stirring the Pot, James C. McCann describes how the ingredients, the practices, and the varied tastes of African cuisine comprise a body of historically gendered knowledge practiced and perfected in households across diverse human and ecological landscape. McCann reveals how tastes and culinary practices are integral to the understanding of history and more generally to the new literature on food as social history. Stirring the Pot offers a chronology of African cuisine beginning in the sixteenth century and continuing from Africa’s original edible endowments to its globalization. McCann traces cooks’ use of new crops, spices, and tastes, including New World imports like maize, hot peppers, cassava, potatoes, tomatoes, and peanuts, as well as plantain, sugarcane, spices, Asian rice, and other ingredients from the Indian Ocean world. He analyzes recipes, not as fixed ahistorical documents,but as lively and living records of historical change in women’s knowledge and farmers’ experiments. A final chapter describes in sensuous detail the direct connections of African cooking to New Orleans jambalaya, Cuban rice and beans, and the cooking of African Americans’ “soul food.” Stirring the Pot breaks new ground and makes clear the relationship between food and the culture, history, and national identity of Africans.

Author : Michael W. Twitty
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062891723
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Koshersoul written by Michael W. Twitty and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Twitty makes the case that Blackness and Judaism coexist in beautiful harmony, and this is manifested in the foods and traditions from both cultures that Black Jews incorporate into their daily lives…Twitty wishes to start a conversation where people celebrate their differences and embrace commonalities. By drawing on personal narratives, his own and others’, and exploring different cultures, Twitty’s book offers important insight into the journeys of Black Jews.”—Library Journal “A fascinating, cross-cultural smorgasbord grounded in the deep emotional role food plays in two influential American communities.”—Booklist The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To Twitty, the creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation of migrations and a dialogue of diasporas offering a rich background for inventive recipes and the people who create them. The question that most intrigues him is not just who makes the food, but how the food makes the people. Jews of Color are not outliers, Twitty contends, but significant and meaningful cultural creators in both Black and Jewish civilizations. Koshersoul also explores how food has shaped the journeys of numerous cooks, including Twitty’s own passage to and within Judaism. As intimate, thought-provoking, and profound as The Cooking Gene, this remarkable book teases the senses as it offers sustenance for the soul. Koshersoul includes 48-50 recipes.

Author : Magdaleen van Wyk
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 143230433X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditional South African Cooking written by Magdaleen van Wyk and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who longs for a beloved grandmother’s famous milk tart or melkkos, or a great aunt’s delicious bobotie or vetkoek, should have this book in his or her kitchen! Traditional South African Cooking is a collection of well-known South African recipes that will enable the modern cook to continue the tradition and produce the same delicious meals that our ancestors used to enjoy. South African cuisine is a unique blend of the culinary art of many different cultures. Dutch, French, German and British settlers, as well as the Malays who came from the East, all brought their own recipes to this country. The subtle adaptation of these ‘imported’ recipes by the addition of local ingredients and the introduction of innovative (at the time) cooking methods resulted in an original and much-loved cuisine. This book also features interesting snippets about our forebears’ way of life.

Author : Rafia Zafar
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820353655
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recipes for Respect written by Rafia Zafar and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and continuing nearly to the present day, African Americans have often been stereotyped as illiterate kitchen geniuses. Rafia Zafar addresses this error, highlighting the long history of accomplished African Americans within our culinary traditions, as well as the literary and entrepreneurial strategies for civil rights and respectability woven into the written records of dining, cooking, and serving. Whether revealed in cookbooks or fiction, memoirs or hotel-keeping manuals, agricultural extension bulletins or library collections, foodways knowledge sustained Black strategies for self-reliance and dignity, the preservation of historical memory, and civil rights and social mobility. If, to follow Mary Douglas’s dictum, food is a field of action—that is, a venue for social intimacy, exchange, or aggression—African American writing about foodways constitutes an underappreciated critique of the racialized social and intellectual spaces of the United States.

Author : Roberta Brown Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781034645252
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Food Is written by Roberta Brown Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a culinary journey that will tantalize your palate with exotic ingredients, herbs, and spices, leaving a lasting impression on your taste buds that will keep you asking for more. African food is nutritious, tasty, spicy, and full of variety. Although the basic ingredients can be classified as carbohydrates, vegetables, meats, seafood, and spices, each ingredient within these categories can be prepared in a variety of ways, yielding thousands of delicious meals. You will find most African recipes require combining meats, fish, chicken, vegetables, and fruit.

Author : Manjase Banda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954682132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of African Cooking written by Manjase Banda and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised edition of "The Best Of African Cooking." In this edition they are over 130 recipes, illustrated in colour and using a variety of different ingredients from Africa. The book has a collection of African recipes whose origins range through the countries of North, West, East, and Southern Africa. Only the best recipes have been selected from the various African countries, including Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique and many others. This is one book you will not want to miss. Here is all you have always wanted to know about African cooking, including different African styles of cooking, equipment used and plenty more. The recipes are easy to follow and the ingredients readily available in most supermarkets all over the world. This book contains some of the best African recipes.

Author : Africa News Service
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Africa News Cookbook written by Africa News Service and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides African-style recipes for soups, sauces, snacks, appetizers, chicken, meat, seafood, vegetables, salads, desserts and beverages.