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High on the hog, a culinary journey from Africa to America, Jessica B. Harris

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High on the hog, a culinary journey from Africa to America, Jessica B. Harris
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
High on the hog
Oclc number
401150911
Responsibility statement
Jessica B. Harris
Sub title
a culinary journey from Africa to America
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, calas 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 -- List of illustrations -- Index
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