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I Heart Soul Food
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From the beloved creator of I Heart Recipes and home cook Rosie Mayes comes a cookbook chock-full of soul food favorites. Learn to cook comfort food the way Mom used to! Here Rosie shares all the secrets of southern classics like fried chicken, mashed potatoes, collard greens, and mac & cheese, plus...
I Heart Soul Food : 100 Southern Comfort Food Favorites

Rosie Mayes

Living Lively
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Bookplate-signed copies available! By a superstar eighteen-year-old activist, motivational speaker, and the youngest Certified Integrative Health Coach in America, a unique cookbook and inspiring guide that combines 75 delicious, wholesome, super-powered plant-based recipes with a “7 points of power” manifesto to inspire the next generation of leaders to take care...
Living Lively : 80 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential

Haile Thomas

Meals, Music, and Muses
Acclaimed restaurateur and co-author of James Beard award-winning Between Harlem and Heaven Alexander Smalls is back with recipes for classic African American dishes that originated in the South—and he organizes them according to the musical traditions to help readers understand the spirit behind them. Iconic chef and world-renowned opera singer Alexander Smalls...
Meals, Music, and Muses : Recipes from My African American Kitchen

Alexander Smalls, Veronica Chambers

From Scratch
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....
From Scratch : A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

Tembi Locke

Me and White Supremacy
The numbers show that readers are ready to do this work-let's give it to them When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking...
Me and White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

Layla F. Saad

Jubilee
2020 James Beard Winner - American Throughout her career, Toni Tipton-Martin has shed new light on the history, breadth, and depth of African American cuisine. She’s introduced us to black cooks, some long forgotten, who established much of what’s considered to be our national cuisine. After all, if Thomas Jefferson...
Jubilee : Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking

Toni-Tipton Martin

The New Way to Cake
Unlock a whole new world of flavor with Benjamina Ebuehi's signature cakes. Inspired by her journey to The Great British Bake Off and beyond, Benjamina's groundbreaking recipes put flavor at the forefront by letting the star ingredients--toasted nuts, fragrant spices, bold herbs and ripe fruit--do all the work. Creations like Plum &...
The New Way to Cake : Simple Recipes with Exceptional Flavor

Benjamina Ebuehi

So You Want to Talk about Race
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans--has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about....
So You Want to Talk about Race

Ijeoma Oluo

How to Be an Antiracist
From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves. Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America—but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new...
How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

From Scratch
Hardcover 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....
From Scratch : A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

Tembi Locke

Notes from a Young Black Chef - Hardcover
2020 James Beard Nominee - Writing Hardcover By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi (winner of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Award for Rising Star Chef of the Year) had opened—and closed—one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company...
Notes from a Young Black Chef - Hardcover

Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein

In Pursuit of Flavor
The classic cookbook from “the first lady of Southern cooking” (NPR), featuring a new foreword by Mashama Bailey, star of Netflix documentary series Chef’s Table. Decades before cornbread, shrimp and grits, and peach cobbler were mainstays on menus everywhere, Edna Lewis was pioneering the celebration of seasonal food as a distinctly...
In Pursuit of Flavor : The Beloved Classic Cookbook from the Acclaimed Author of the Taste of Country

Edna Lewis

We Were Eight Years in Power
In these “urgently relevant essays,”* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)—including the election of Donald Trump. The years between 2008 and 2016 don’t just mark two terms of a historic presidency but define...
We Were Eight Years in Power : An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Carla Hall’s Soul Food
Co-host of ABC’s hit Emmy Award-winning lifestyle show The Chew and fan favorite on Bravo’s Top Chef, Carla Hall celebrates soul food and gives classic dishes her own fresh twists, with 145 delectable recipes updated for the way we eat now In Carla Hall’s Soul Food, the beloved chef and television celebrity takes us...
Carla Hall’s Soul Food : Everyday and Celebration

Carla Hall, Genevieve Ko Harper Wave

Sweet Home Cafe Cookbook
A celebration of African American cooking with 109 recipes from the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Sweet Home Café. Named a 2019 James Beard Foundation Book Award nominee for best American cookbook; a Food & Wine best cookbook of fall 2018; a Booklist top 10 food book of 2018; an Essence Oct 2018...
Sweet Home Cafe Cookbook : A Celebration of African American Cooking

NMAAHC, Jessica B. Harris, Albert Lukas, Jerome Grant

The Artisanal Kitchen
The single-subject Artisanal Kitchen series grows with three holiday-helping books—featuring recipes from Cheryl and Griffith Day, owners of Savannah’s must-visit Back in the Day Bakery and award-winning authors of the New York Times bestselling Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook and the national bestselling Back in the Day Bakery Made with Love. Make the happiest...
The Artisanal Kitchen : Baking for Breakfast: 33 Muffin, Biscuit, Egg, & Other Sweet & Savory Dishes

Cheryl Day & Griffith Day

Ageless Vegan
Vegan lifestyle expert Tracye McQuirter teams up with her mother Mary to share their secrets for maintaining radiant health for more than 30 years (hint: it’s all in the greens), and 100 of their favorite plant-based recipes that have kept them looking and feeling ageless. They break down the basics...
Ageless Vegan : The Secret to Living a Long and Healthy Plant-Based Life

Tracye McQuirter

Soul
Amazon's Best Cookbooks of 2018 Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2018 Food52 Favorite Cookbooks of 2018 The Atlantic Best Cookbooks of 2018 Grub Street (New York Magazine) Best Cookbooks of 2018 James Beard Award-nominated Chef Todd Richards shares his personal culinary exploration of soul food. Black American chefs and cooks...
Soul : A Chef’s Culinary Evolution in 150 Recipes

Todd Richards

Edna Lewis
Leading chefs and writers reflect on the heart of a culinary movement Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America's most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking. Lewis cooked and wrote as a means to explore her memories of childhood on a farm in...
Edna Lewis : At the Table with an American Original - HARDCOVER

Sara B. Franklin, Editor

Black Girl Baking
Standout, soul-food-inspired baked goods that take advantage of all five senses. Jerrelle’s Honey Wheat Cinnamon Raisin Bread smells of the sweet bread her father would use to pack his lunch every morning. Her Bruleed Buttermilk Pie mimics the cracking surface of the crème brulee her great aunt used to make...
Black Girl Baking : Wholesome Recipes Inspired by a Soulful Upbringing

Jerrelle Guy

The Cooking Gene
Paperback. A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition,...
The Cooking Gene : A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South - Paperback

Michael W. Twitty

Cooking Solo
100 delicious recipes to make meals for yourself with style, sophistication, and the occasional indulgence   At a time when 31 million American adults live alone, Klancy Miller is here to show that cooking for one is something to embrace. While making single servings from other cookbooks means scaling down ingredients,...
Cooking Solo : The Joy of Cooking for Yourself

Klancy Miller

The Jemima Code
Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award, 2016 Winner, Art of Eating Prize, 2015 Winner, BCALA Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 2016 Women of African descent have contributed to America’s food culture for centuries, but their rich and varied involvement is still overshadowed by...
The Jemima Code : Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks

Toni Tipton-Martin

The Up South Cookbook
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Signed copies available! Southern cooking meets the Brooklyn foodie scene, keeping charm (and grits) intact Georgia native Nicole Taylor spent her early twenties trying to distance herself from her southern cooking roots--a move "up" to Brooklyn gave her a fresh appreciation for the bread and biscuits, Classic Fried Chicken, Lemon...
The Up South Cookbook : Chasing Dixie in a Brooklyn Kitchen

Nicole A. Taylor