The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro - Hardcover

National Council Of Negro Women

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807009644 ISBN 13: 9780807009642

Publisher: Beacon Pr, 2000

Synopsis

From the organization that brought us The Black Family Reunion cookbooks comes The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro, a fun, richly brewed collection of recipes, historical facts, photos, and personal anecdotes. First published in 1958 by the National Council of Negro Women, it includes contributions from members in thirty-six states plus the District of Columbia and offers exceptional insight into American history and the African-American community at the time of its publication. As John Hope Franklin (whose own family owns a copy of the book) points out, much of the cultural information in the cookbook has never been passed down to successive generations.

Arranged according to the calendar year, the cookbook opens with a cake to be baked in celebration of both New Year's Day and the Emancipation Proclamation. Scattered among the recipes one finds excerpts from documents such as the Gettysburg Address and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Tributes to well-known figures like Harriet Tubman, Phillis Wheatley, and Booker T. Washington appear alongside brief bios and recipes in celebration of important but obscured figures. This delightful collection of delicious recipes helps us commemorate African-American history throughout the year.

About this title

About the Author:

The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) is an organization dedicated to improving the lives of African-American women, their families, and their communities. Dorothy I. Height, national president and CEO of the NCNW, worked on the original edition of the cookbook in 1958 and lives in Washington, D.C. Anne Lieberman Bower, associate professor of English at Ohio State University, Marion, is editor of Recipes for Reading. She lives in Delaware, Ohio

From Booklist:

In 1958, the National Council of Negro Women published a cookbook documenting their food heritage. Organized to serve as a means of observing annual holidays, it presented recipes from the earliest days of the nation, with contextual commentary. The cookbook marched boldly into territory beyond plantation life with exotica such as sukiyaki and Ceylon curry. A new reprint of The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro offers insight into both the cooking of the first generations of African Americans and the self-perception of their female descendants at the outset of the sixties' civil rights movement. Mark Knoblauch
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About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0807009644
• ISBN 13: 9780807009642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 166
• Editor: Thurman Sue Bailey, Bower Anne L.