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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
Signed
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

Senegal
Senegal will transport you deep into the country’s rich, multifaceted cuisine. You’ll feel the sun at your back and the cool breeze off the Atlantic, hear the sizzle of freshly caught fish hitting the grill, and bask in the tropical palm forests of Casamance. Inspired by the depth of Senegalese...
Senegal : Modern Senegalese Recipes from the Source to the Bowl

Pierre Thiam, Jennifer Sit, Evan Sung

Brown Sugar Kitchen
Brown Sugar Kitchen is more than a restaurant. This soul-food outpost is a community gathering spot, a place to fill the belly, and the beating heart of West Oakland, a storied postindustrial neighborhood across the bay from San Francisco. The restaurant is a friendly beacon on a tree-lined parkway, nestled...
Brown Sugar Kitchen : New-Style, Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland

Tanya Holland, Jan Newberry

Afro-Vegan
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,...
Afro-Vegan : Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed

Bryant Terry

Yes, Chef
Paperback Marcus Samuelsson was only three years old when he, his mother, and his sister—all battling tuberculosis—walked seventy-five miles to a hospital in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Adaba. Tragically, his mother succumbed to the disease shortly after she arrived, but Marcus and his sister recovered, and one year...
Yes, Chef :   A Memoir

Marcus Samuelsson

The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook
New York Times best seller Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Cookbook of the Year Fire up your oven with recipes Food & Wine calls “down-home and fabulous . . . classics with a little something extra.” Nationally recognized and locally adored for its decadent homespun desserts and delicious rustic breads, Back in the Day...
The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook

Cheryl Day, Griffith Day

The Inspired Vegan
From the author of Vegan Soul Kitchen: ingredients that inspire, unique recipes, and menus for everyday feasts. Marking his 10-year anniversary working to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system, Bryant Terry offers more than just a collection of recipes. In the spirit of jazz jam sessions and hip hop...
The Inspired Vegan : Seasonal Ingredients, Creative Recipes, Mouthwatering Menus

Bryant Terry

The Dooky Chase Cookbook
Where do personalities the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Ray Charles, Lou Rawls, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, the Jackson 5, and Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama choose to eat when they are in New Orleans? Dooky Chase's Restaurant, a New Orleans landmark and celebrated bastion of fine...
The Dooky Chase Cookbook

Leah Chase

The Full Plate
A weeknight-friendly cookbook for the whole family, from New York Times bestselling author, online phenomenon, and TV star Ayesha Curry. Ayesha Curry is a busy chef, entrepreneur, wife, and mom of three--and she knows what it's like to have so much on your plate you can barely think about dinner. But she...
The Full Plate : Flavor-Filled, Easy Recipes for Families with No Time and a Lot to Do

Ayesha Curry