WELCOME TABLE: African-American Heritage Cooking - Hardcover

Harris, Jessica B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671793608 ISBN 13: 9780671793609

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1995

Synopsis

Featuring African-American food at its best, with recipes gathered from church suppers, family reunions, and Sunday school picnics, a culinary collection includes red-eye gravy, sweet potato pie, and generous servings of African-American culture and history. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Jessica B. Harris is the author of A Kwanzaa Keepsake, Tasting Brazil, Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons, and Sky Juice and Flying Fish. Her articles have appeared in Eating Well, Food & Wine, Essence, and The New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

From Library Journal:

Harris is the author of a number of good cookbooks, including Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons: Africa's Gifts to New World Cooking (LJ 5/15/89), in some ways the forerunner of this one. Here she presents African American recipes of all sorts, from slave cooking, the source of many classic Southern dishes, to the family favorites she grew up with to her own sophisticated reinterpretations or inventions. Headnotes are readable and informative, providing culinary and cultural background and more; reminiscences from different cooks (and some noncooks) open the various chapters. Angela Medearis's The African-American Kitchen (LJ 8/84) offers a similar, somewhat more personal look at this culinary tradition, but Harris's thoroughly researched book is the essential purchase.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0671793608
• ISBN 13: 9780671793609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288