High on the hog : a culinary journey from Africa to America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Jessica B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Out of Africa : foods, techniques, and ceremonies of the mother continent
  • Sea changes : enslavement, the middle passage, and the migrating tastes of Africa
  • The power of three : arrivals, encounters, and culinary connections
  • The tightening vice : indenture to enslavement and the African hand in the food of Colonial America
  • In sorrow's kitchen : hog meat, hominy, and the africanizing of the palate of the South
  • City food, South and North : caterers, cala vendors, and the continuing of African culinary traditions
  • O freedom! : jubilee jubilations
  • Westward ho! : migrations, innovations, and a growing culinary divide
  • Movin' on up! : resilience, resistance, and entrepreneurs large and small
  • We shall not be moved : sit-ins, soul food, and increasing culinary diversity
  • We are the world : making it in an expanding Black world and joining an unbroken African culinary circle
  • Recipes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Further reading.