Peppers, Cracklings, and Knots of Wool Cookbook: The Global Migration of African Cuisine
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...
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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. Booknews This is no ordinary cookbook. Spivey (history, U. of Miami) relates a complicated story of cultural survival, presenting recipes used by people of African descent currently living around the world, along with a documented history of Africa's agricultural life and of the roles played by explorers and merchants in the spread of African cuisine. This book dispels the myth that there is no such thing as African cuisine, and replaces it with an understanding of how Africa's flavorful contributions continue to characterize a variety of foods and cultures today.
\ BooknewsThis is no ordinary cookbook. Spivey (history, U. of Miami) relates a complicated story of cultural survival, presenting recipes used by people of African descent currently living around the world, along with a documented history of Africa's agricultural life and of the roles played by explorers and merchants in the spread of African cuisine. This book dispels the myth that there is no such thing as African cuisine, and replaces it with an understanding of how Africa's flavorful contributions continue to characterize a variety of foods and cultures today.\ \
