If I can cook, you know God can : African American food memories, meditations, and recipes /
Shange, Ntozake,
If I can cook, you know God can : African American food memories, meditations, and recipes / Ntozake Shange ; foreword by Vertamae Grosvenor ; [epilogue 2018 by Ntozake Shange]. - xv, 120 pages ; 22 cm - Celebrating Black Women Writers .
Includes bibliographical references.
Recipes -- What'd you people call that? -- What we don't say in public -- All it took was a road / Surprises of urban renewal -- Birthday in Brixton -- Too many fish in the sea -- Brazil: more African than Africans -- What is it we really harvestin' here? -- Westward ho! Anywhere must be better'n here! -- Better late than never -- Is that why the Duke had a train of his own? -- And what did you serve? Oh, no, you did not! -- Virtual realities. Real people. Real foods -- Epilogue -- Epilogue 2018.
Ntozake Shange offers this eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a true food of life, one that reflects the tenacious spirit and powerful history of a people. With recipes that include everything from Cousin Eddie's Shark with Breadfruit to Collard Greens to Bring You Money, Shange instructs us 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 members of the African Diaspora. From the flyin' fish controversy (yes, that's right, flyin' fish) between Trinidad and Tobago, to a union of spirits in the once-divided nation of Nicaragua, we enter a world where adaptation and experimentation are a matter of course, where history and pain have forged nations, but food has founded culture.
080702144X 9780807021446
2018304272
African American cooking.
Cookbooks.
If I can cook, you know God can : African American food memories, meditations, and recipes / Ntozake Shange ; foreword by Vertamae Grosvenor ; [epilogue 2018 by Ntozake Shange]. - xv, 120 pages ; 22 cm - Celebrating Black Women Writers .
Includes bibliographical references.
Recipes -- What'd you people call that? -- What we don't say in public -- All it took was a road / Surprises of urban renewal -- Birthday in Brixton -- Too many fish in the sea -- Brazil: more African than Africans -- What is it we really harvestin' here? -- Westward ho! Anywhere must be better'n here! -- Better late than never -- Is that why the Duke had a train of his own? -- And what did you serve? Oh, no, you did not! -- Virtual realities. Real people. Real foods -- Epilogue -- Epilogue 2018.
Ntozake Shange offers this eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a true food of life, one that reflects the tenacious spirit and powerful history of a people. With recipes that include everything from Cousin Eddie's Shark with Breadfruit to Collard Greens to Bring You Money, Shange instructs us 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 members of the African Diaspora. From the flyin' fish controversy (yes, that's right, flyin' fish) between Trinidad and Tobago, to a union of spirits in the once-divided nation of Nicaragua, we enter a world where adaptation and experimentation are a matter of course, where history and pain have forged nations, but food has founded culture.
080702144X 9780807021446
2018304272
African American cooking.
Cookbooks.