Over 100 recipes from cuisines throughout the Americas, spiced with anecdotes, humor, and folklore. This is the companion book to the second season of public television's "Vertamae Cooks in the Americas' Family Kitchen", which begins airing in April 1999. 40 color photos. Author signings.
Cultural anthropologist Vertamae Grosvenor--host of Horizons, a pubic radio forum for long-form documentaries--serves up fascinating folklore and delectable recipes as she traces the roots of African-American cooking, in this companion volume to The Americas' Family Kitchen, PBS's first cooking show on African-American cuisine. 40 color photos. ...
Acclaimed playwright, novelist, and poet Ntozake Shange offers a delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a true food of life, reflecting the tenacious spirit and powerful history of a people. Shange instructs in the nuances of a cuisine born on the slave ships of the Middle Passage, spiced by the jazz of Duke Ellington, and shared by all ...
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