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Moving Beyond Catfish And Collard Greens To The Soul Of African American Cooking. Ranging Over The Progression From Seventeenth-century West African Fare To Contemporary Fusion Dishes Using Soul Food Ingredients, This Book Provides An Introduction To Many Aspects Of African American Foodways. Examining The Combination Of African, Caribbean, And South American Traditions, The Volume's Contributors Offer Insights From History, Literary Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, And African American Studies To Demonstrate How Food's Material And Symbolic Values Have Contributed To African Americans' Identity For Centuries. Individual Chapters Examine How African Foodways Survived The Passage Into Slavery, Cultural Meanings Associated With African American Foodways, And The Contents Of African American Cookbooks, Both Early And Recent. Food Crops, Medicinal Plants, And The Atlantic Slave Trade / Robert L. Hall -- Soul Food As Cultural Creation / William C. Whit -- Excavating The South's African American Food History / Anne Yentsch -- From Fiction To Foodways : Working At The Intersections Of African American Literary And Culinary Studies / Doris Witt -- Chickens And Chains : Using African Ameri

Author

Anne L. Bower

Publisher

Urbana: University of Illinois Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252031854

Subjects

Home & Lifestyle, Cooking, Anthropology