High on the hog : a culinary journey from Africa to America / Jessica B. Harris ; foreword by Maya Angelou.
Cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. High on the Hog is the culmination of years of her work, and the result is an engaging history of African American cuisine. Harris takes the reader on a harrowing journey from Afri...
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Out of Africa : foods, techniques, and ceremonies of the mother continent
- Sea changes : enslavement, the middle passage, and the migrating tastes of Africa
- The power of three : arrivals, encounters, and culinary connections
- The tightening vice [i.e. vise] : indenture to enslavement and the African hand in the food of Colonial America
- In sorrow's kitchen : hog meat, hominy, and the africanizing of the palate of the South
- City food, South and North : caterers, cala vendors, and the continuing of African culinary traditions
- O freedom! : jubilee jubilations
- Westward ho! : migrations, innovations, and a growing culinary divide
- Movin' on up! : resilience, resistance, and entrepreneurs large and small
- We shall not be moved : sit-ins, soul food, and increasing culinary diversity
- We are the world : making it in an expanding Black world and joining an unbroken African culinary circle
- Recipes.