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At the Table of Power

Food and Cuisine in the African American Struggle for Freedom, Justice, and Equality

By: Diane M. Spivey

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At the Table of Power

Food and Cuisine in the African American Struggle for Freedom, Justice, and Equality

By: Diane M. Spivey

At the Table of Power is both a cookbook and a culinary history that intertwines social issues, personal stories, and political commentary. Renowned culinary historian Diane M. Spivey offers a unique insight into the historical experience and cultural values of African America and America in general by way of the kitchen. From the rural country kitchen and steamboat floating palaces to marketplace street vendors and restaurants in urban hubs of business and finance, Africans in America cooked their way to positions of distinct superiority, and thereby indispensability. Despite their many culinary accomplishments, most Black culinary artists have been made invisible—until now. Within these pages, Spivey tells a powerful story beckoning and daring the reader to witness this culinary, cultural, and political journey taken hand in hand with the fight of Africans in America during the foundation years, from colonial slavery through the Reconstruction era. These narratives, together with the recipes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, expose the politics of the day and offer insight on the politics of today. African American culinary artists, Spivey concludes, have more than earned a rightful place at the table of culinary contribution and power.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822989034

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9780822989035

The Peppers, Cracklings, and Knots of Wool Cookbook

The Global Migration of African Cuisine

By: Diane M. Spivey

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The Peppers, Cracklings, and Knots of Wool Cookbook

The Global Migration of African Cuisine

By: Diane M. Spivey

Fifteen years in the making, this book emerges as a new approach to presenting culinary information. It showcases a myriad of sumptuous, mouth-watering recipes comprising the many commonalities in ingredients and methods of food preparation of people of color from various parts of the globe. This powerful book traces and documents the continent's agricultural and mineral prosperity and the strong role played by ancient explorers, merchants, and travelers from Africa's east and west coasts in making lasting culinary and cultural marks on the United States, the Caribbean, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, India, and Southeast Asia. Groundbreaking in its treatment of heritage survival in African and African American cooking, this illuminating book broadens the scope of cuisine as it examines its historical relationship to a host of subjects—including music, advertising, sexual exploitation, and publishing. Provocative in its perspective, The Peppers, Cracklings, and Knots of Wool Cookbook dispels the long-standing misnomer that African cuisine is primitive, unsophisticated or simply non-existent, and serves as a reference in understanding how Africa's contributions continue to mark our cuisine and culture today.

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State University of New York Press

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0791493393

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9780791493397

At the Table of Power

Food and Cuisine in the African American Struggle for Freedom, Justice, and Equality

By: Diane M. Spivey

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Food and Cuisine in the African American Struggle for Freedom, Justice, and Equality

By: Diane M. Spivey

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822989034

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9780822989035

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At the Table of Power

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