An African American cookbook : exploring Black history and culture through traditional foods / Phoebe Bailey with the special assistance of Christina G. Johnson and Kesha M. Morant.

By:

Bailey, Phoebe [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, New York : Good Books, [2021]Description: 287 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781680996456
1680996452

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Cookbooks.

DDC classification:

641.59/296073 21

LOC classification:

TX715 .B1613 2021

Contents:

"Wade in the Water" Main Dishes -- "Steal Away" Meats -- "Swing Low" Vegetables -- "Go Down Moses" Salads -- "Let Us Break Bread Together" Breads -- "Follow the Drinking Gourd" Soups -- Bethel AME's Annual Cookout. Sweets -- A Newly Freed Man's Prayer. Cakes -- "We are Climbing Jacob's Ladder" Snacks, Appetizers, and Drinks.

Summary: "An African American Cookbook: Exploring Black History and Culture Through Traditional Foods is a bountiful collection of favorite foods and the memories that go with them. The foods reflect the ingenious, resourceful, and imaginative Africans who made them. Woven among the four hundred recipes are rich historic anecdotes and sayings. They were discovered or lived by the cookbook's contributors, many of whose ancestors participated in the Underground Railroad or lived near where it was active."--Page [4] of cover.

List(s) this item appears in: Black History Month

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Bedford Public Library Non-Fiction	Non-Fiction	641.59296 BAI	More online.	Available		32500001813584

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

400 Soul Food Recipes for Appetizers, Main Meals, Breads, Pies, Cakes, Salads, and More!

An African American Cookbook: Exploring Black History and Culture Through Traditional Foods is a bountiful collection of favorite foods and the memories that go with them. The foods reflect the ingenious, resourceful, and imaginative Africans who made them. Woven among the four hundred recipes are rich historic anecdotes and sayings. They were discovered or lived by the cookbook's contributors, many of whose ancestors participated in the Underground Railroad or lived near where it was active. This is a cookbook rich in history and rich in easy-to-prepare, wonderfully tasty food! Recipes include:

* Collard greens with ham hocks
* Cornbread sausage stuffing
* Smoked turkey and black-eyed peas
* Pan-fried okra
* Fried green tomatoes
* 14-day sweet pickles
* Yogurt and chives biscuits
* Sweet potato pie
* And more!

Author Phoebe Bailey's congregation in historic Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has a long history with Underground Railroad activity. Today they offer Underground Railroad reenactments and a buffet of traditional African American food to their many visitors. This cookbook celebrates those historic events, when this church fed and then helped to spirit enslaved Africans to safety.

"400 soul food recipes for appetizers, main meals, breads, pies, cakes, salads, and more!"

Includes index.

"An African American Cookbook: Exploring Black History and Culture Through Traditional Foods is a bountiful collection of favorite foods and the memories that go with them. The foods reflect the ingenious, resourceful, and imaginative Africans who made them. Woven among the four hundred recipes are rich historic anecdotes and sayings. They were discovered or lived by the cookbook's contributors, many of whose ancestors participated in the Underground Railroad or lived near where it was active."--Page [4] of cover.

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

Some of my fondest memories of my mother surround her ability to create a meal out of anything. Having to prepare supper for 15 children every evening required a lot of creativity and patience. Thankfully, my mother never ran short of either. She could make a simple meal a gourmet experience. I thank God that my mother had the ability to plan and prepare meals as she wanted to for us children. Our ancestors who lived on plantations, however, did not have this luxury. Many mothers were in the fields working from sunup to sundown, planting and preparing the fields for harvest. These mothers' young children were often left back at the slaves' quarters, usually with an elder enslaved African, who because of illness or feebleness could no longer offer free field labor for the Massa. Those mothers who worked in the Big House, the great house, the house that offered comfort--these mothers who were separated from their babies--would try to sneak down to the slave quarters with some small morsel of food for their children, praying every step of the way not to be discovered. Excerpted from An African American Cookbook: Exploring Black History and Culture Through Traditional Foods by Phoebe Bailey All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Phoebe Bailey was born the youngest of fifteen children in a family from Huntington, Long Island, New York. Phoebe has been encouraged by her father's strength and courage as a black man, and inspired by her mother's faith in God and undeniable intelligence as a black woman, to embrace herself and her African heritage. Phoebe began her career with Bethel Harambee Historical Services as a call from God. She left the corporate world to work closely with her brother, The Reverend Edward M. Bailey, and the congregation of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, to preserve and tell the stories of those Africans who have been discounted and left out of traditional American history and to restore and rebuild a community of faith. She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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