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This richly personal cookbook celebrates African plant-based cuisine from across Africa through its regional traditions, powerful storytelling, and vibrant, nourishing recipes.In her debut cookbook, African plant-based food educator and chef Jane Nshuti invites readers on a journey across the continent, guided by the flavors and food memories that have shaped...
From the daughter of the legendary Mildred “Mama Dip” Council, a heartfelt cookbook celebrating four generations of Black restaurateurs and the soulful recipes that nourished a community. For nearly fifty years, Mama Dip’s Kitchen wasn’t just one of Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s most beloved restaurants—it was an institution. In 1976,...
In the first major Jamaican cookbook of its kind, Kingston-born chef Andre Fowles presents modern and classic recipes for the best of Jamaican food capturing the tastes and traditions of the island, with a foreword from Bruce Springsteen. Jamaican cuisine is the result of a rich blend of cultural influences: Indigenous,...
A bold, timely history by a leading Black farmer illuminating the massive contributions to US agriculture made by African expertise and innovation.At the heart of Africulture is an aspect of history that will surprise, challenge, and enrich: the fact that without African expertise and innovation, American agriculture—and America itself—would not exist.This book...
From beloved food writer and author of the James Beard Award finalist Black Girl Baking comes a joyous cookbook that transforms everyday meals into something special and unexpected with just a few simple flourishes.Fanciness is a mindset. It’s realizing that you can make everyday food feel special using what you likely already...
Reconnect to the natural world through over 60 delicious recipes and practical tips for cooking outside from the founder of Camp Yoshi.Nothing motivates, comforts, energizes, and brings people together like a delicious meal. For Rashad Frazier, founder of outdoor adventure company Camp Yoshi, the outdoors is a place for celebration,...
A vibrant new vision of food justice that celebrates Black food and recognizes the power of gathering to create sustainable, systemic change. How can we create a world where everyone has enough? We can start by focusing less on lack and more on abundance. In Gather, anthropologist Ashanté M. Reese argues...
A first-of-its-kind guide to pairing wine with foods from Africa and beyond, including a tour of wine regions across the globe and a foreword by Stephen Satterfield, from renowned Certified Sommelier Cha McCoy. The wine world often says food and wine that grow together, go together, and that spicy, tangy,...
Raise a glass to the joy of pickleball! This collection of 40+ delicious pickleball-inspired drink recipes is perfect for anyone who loves the game—and a well-crafted courtside cocktail. What could be more perfect than a gorgeous, sunny day filled with rounds of pickleball with friends and rounds of well-crafted cocktails...
A child joins his grandmother in catching and cooking to prepare for the family’s fish fry in this mouthwatering companion to Soul Food Sunday, a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor Book.On Friday evenings, we go to Granny’s for a fish fry.And on Friday mornings, Granny fishes.This Friday, “You coming fishing...
A picture book bursting with life and flavors about a son and his father cooking up a beloved dish that originated in West Africa—jollof recipe included!Early in the morning while the sun is still rising, a young boy wakes his father for something special—it’s Jollof Day!With clanging pots and pans, lots...
Across centuries and continents, the influence of West African food and culture draws a delicious family tree whose branches stretch into the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States from coast to coast—from the deep South to the Wild West and all the roads in between. In this sprawling and evocative...
Updated new edition includes 7 previously unpublished profiles and an author note!From the renowned Tuskegee Institute of Alabama, this classic collection of heritage recipes and anecdotes features more than two hundred mouthwatering African American dishes with pictorial accounts, personal vignettes, and poetry.For over 100 years, the small Southern town of...
As a small country on the west coast of Africa, throughout its history Sierra Leone has always embraced diversity—and this willingness to discover and grow has shaped Sierra Leone’s rich food culture. Forged by history, people and place, the cuisine is completely unique. Maria Bradford’s recipes, inspired by her grandmother’s...
Bookplate signed copies available Paperback edition. The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, culinary historian and James Beard Award–winning author Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most...
A deep look at family, community, and Texas BBQ through 90 recipes and stories from the famous pitmaster and restaurateur behind Bludso’s BBQ.Kevin Bludso was born and raised in Compton, California, by a Black Panther–supporting mother and a police officer father. To stay out of trouble, he spent his summers...
A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour. It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Florence....
African, Caribbean, and southern food are all known and loved as vibrant and flavor-packed cuisines. In Afro-Vegan, renowned chef and food justice activist Bryant Terry reworks and remixes the favorite staples, ingredients, and classic dishes of the African Diaspora to present wholly new, creative culinary combinations that will amaze vegans,...