Vibration cooking, or, the travel notes of a Geechee girl / Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor.

Vibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term "soul food" gained common use. While critics were quick to categorize her as a proponent of soul food, Smart-Grosvenor wanted to keep the discussion of her cookbook/memoir focused on its message of food as a source of p...

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Main Author: Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae
Other title:Travel notes of a Geechee girl.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ga. ; London : University of Georgia Press, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the 2011 Edition; The Demystification of Food; HOME; Birth, Hunting and Gator Tails; The Smarts, the Ritters and Chief Kuku Koukoui; Philadelphia, Mrs. Greenstein and Terrapins; First Cousins and the Numbers; AWAY FROM HOME; '59; '68; MADNESS; Forty Acres and a Jeep; Name-calling; Hospitals Ain't No Play Pretty; Taxis and Poor Man's Mace; Work; LOVE; I Love Dinner Parties; ... My Friends; ... African Clothes; ... Bon Voyage Parties; MIXED BAG; Collards and Other Greens; Poultices and Home Remedies; Spices; Aphrodisiacal Foods.
  • Cocktails and Other BeveragesWhite Folks and Fried Chicken; The Jet Set and Beautiful People; SOME LETTERS TO AND FROM STELLA AND ONE TO BOB THOMPSON; TO BE CONTINUED; The Kitchen; A Poem; Appendix 1: Introduction to the 1986 Edition; Appendix 2: Introduction to the 1992 Edition; Index of Recipes; B; C; D; E; F; G; L; M; N; P; S; V.