Vertamae Cooks Again - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vertamae Cooks Again write by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor. This book was released on 1999. Vertamae Cooks Again available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over 100 recipes from cuisines throughout the Americas, spiced with anecdotes, humor, and folklore. This is the companion book to the second season of public television's Vertamae Cooks in the Americas' Family Kitchen, which begins airing in April 1999. 40 color photos. Author signings.
Vibration Cooking
Vibration Cooking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vibration Cooking write by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor. This book was released on 2011-04-15. Vibration Cooking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 pride and validation of black womanhood and black “consciousness raising.” In 1959, at the age of nineteen, Smart-Grosvenor sailed to Europe, “where the bohemians lived and let live.” Among the cosmopolites of radical Paris, the Gullah girl from the South Carolina low country quickly realized that the most universal lingua franca is a well-cooked meal. As she recounts a cool cat’s nine lives as chanter, dancer, costume designer, and member of the Sun Ra Solar-Myth Arkestra, Smart-Grosvenor introduces us to a rich cast of characters. We meet Estella Smart, Vertamae’s grandmother and connoisseur of mountain oysters; Uncle Costen, who lived to be 112 and knew how to make Harriet Tubman Ragout; and Archie Shepp, responsible for Collard Greens à la Shepp, to name a few. She also tells us how poundcake got her a marriage proposal (she didn’t accept) and how she perfected omelettes in Paris, enchiladas in New Mexico, biscuits in Mississippi, and feijoida in Brazil. “When I cook, I never measure or weigh anything,” writes Smart-Grosvenor. “I cook by vibration.” This edition features a foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson placing the book in historical context and discussing Smart-Grosvenor’s approach to food and culture. A new preface by the author details how she came to write Vibration Cooking.
Vertamae Cooks in the Americas' Family Kitchen
Vertamae Cooks in the Americas' Family Kitchen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vertamae Cooks in the Americas' Family Kitchen write by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor. This book was released on 1996. Vertamae Cooks in the Americas' Family Kitchen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cultural anthropologist Vertamae Grosvenor--host of Horizons, a pubic radio forum for long-form documentaries--serves up fascinating folklore and delectable recipes as she traces the roots of African-American cooking, in this companion volume to The Americas' Family Kitchen, PBS's first cooking show on African-American cuisine. 40 color photos. Color illustrations.
Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off
Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off write by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor. This book was released on 2018-12-18. Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Observations from the lives of African American domestic workers—back in print Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off is an exploration of the lives of African American domestic workers in cities throughout the United States during the mid-twentieth century. With dry wit and honesty, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor relates the testimonies of maids, cooks, child care workers, and others as they discuss their relationships with their employers and their experiences on the job. She connects this work with popular culture, presenting Aunt Jemima, Mammies, Uncle Ben, and other charged figures through the eyes of domestic workers as opposed to their employers, and remembers her own family history (her mother and grandmother were domestic workers after migrating to Philadelphia from South Carolina). Interspersed with musings and interviews are historical references, quotations, and personal anecdotes that make this account all the more intimate, heartbreaking, and relevant.
A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove
A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove write by Laura Schenone. This book was released on 2003. A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Filled with classic recipes and inspirational stories, this stunningly illustrated book celebrates the power of food throughout American history and in women's lives.
