Wilkinson, Crystal
Summary: "A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen. There were an abundance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 WILHeiskell, Elizabeth
Summary: This book will inspire anyone who loves to party, host, gather, cook, or eat. Included are 31 party-themed menus and guides for party planning from invitations and estimating portions to decorating and farewell favors. -- Adapted from back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House, an imprint of Time Inc. Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 HEITwitty, Michael
Summary: "Culinary historian Michael W. Twitty brings a fresh perspective to 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 from slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 TWIClark, Kelsey Barnard
Summary: "A modern take on Southern cooking with 100 accessible recipes and lifestyle tips, from 2016 Top Chef winner and fan favorite Kelsey Barnard Clark"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 CLAMayes, Rosie
Summary: "100 new soul food recipes from bestselling author, Rosie Mayes, of I Heart Soul Food. In this new book Rosie is offering a follow-up to the first book with another collection of classic, comforting, and mouthwatering soul food recipes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 MAYSummary: Premiering on PBS, Vivian travels the changing South in search of the dishes that connect all, dumplings, hand pies, porridge and more, but which are expressed in delightfully different ways across cultures. Along the way, she meets new friends and teachers, and as she says, she discovers how breaking bread and sharing a meal can create a comfortable place to have meaningful, memorable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOMRaiford, Matthew
Summary: "From the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida, this is where descendants of enslaved Africans came together to make extraordinary food, speaking the African Creole language called Gullah-Geechee. In this groundbreaking and beautiful cookbook, Matthew Raiford pays homage to this cuisine that nurtured his family for seven generations. In 2010, Raiford's Nana handed over the deed to the family farm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 RAIOtawka, Whitney
Summary: A culinary travel fantasy, celebrating the food of the Southeastern coast. Whitney Otawka is the award-winning chef of Greyfield, a celebrated Carnegie-built inn located on Cumberland Island, Georgia--a magical and remote barrier island that has been left undeveloped as a National Seashore. Cumberland Island and the exceptional local ingredients to be found there are Otawka's muse, inspiring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 OTASchrager, Lee.
Summary: "These are 50 exciting new recipes for America's most decadently delicious food, from classic Southern preparations to new twists by chefs across the country, paired with 25 perfect sides--the best of the crispiest birds around, as selected by the founder of the South Beach and New York City Wine & Food Festival. Everyone has their own take on fried chicken: some let it brine with lots of salt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 SCHSummary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUDissen, William Stark
Summary: Growing up in West Virginia, Chef William Dissen began his culinary journey in his grandmother's kitchen. There, family meals were cooked with local ingredients, many from the home's bountiful garden. In this ambitious debut cookbook, Dissen reinterprets the flavors of his youth, putting a modern spin on recipes grounded in the traditions of sustainable agriculture, local cuisine, and the hills...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm. Reese Witherspoon's grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made southern women "whiskey in a teacup." We may be delicate and ornamental on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WHITHERSPOON WHIBragg, Rick
Summary: Presents a food memoir, cookbook, and tribute to the author's mother, sharing classic family recipes--many of them pre-dating the Civil War--and preparation secrets for such traditional fare as short ribs, biscuits, and perfect mashed potatoes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 BRASummary: A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHEYearwood, Trisha.
Summary: "Hotly anticipated, and full of healthy twists on comfort food classics, Trisha's Table is bestselling cookbook author and country mega-star Trisha Yearwood's first cookbook since she slimmed down and debuted her wildly popular Food Network show, "Trisha's Southern Kitchen." Responding to an increased demand, Trisha shares how she has incorporated healthier cooking into her lifestyle without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 YEAWest, Michael Lee.
Summary: By watching a multitude of relatives cook, squabble, and carry on tradition, West went from a noncooking student to a full-on gourmet of food and words. Wonderfully presented and thoroughly entertaining, this warm and witty work unites West's evocative voice and humor with the uniquely American form of kitchen tables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 WestEdge, John T
Summary: "A people's history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 EDGStone, Robyn
Summary: Your mother may have had all day to prepare dinner, but cooks now look for convenient, fast recipes using fresh ingredients. Stone has updated a variety of Southern recipes for the way we cook today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 STOAlexander, Jasper
Summary: In 1938, Louisiana native Hattie Gray started Hattie's Chicken Shack in Saratoga Springs, New York. Alexander traces the restaurant's history to the present through recipes, anecdotes, and photographs, interwoven with recipes from downhome jambalaya to good old-fashioned fried chicken. Now you can enjoy these tasty Southern meals with your family and friends in the comfort of your own sweet home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ALELukas, Albert
Summary: Since the 2016 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, its Sweet Home Café has become a destination in its own right. Showcasing African American contributions to American cuisine, the café offers favorite dishes made with locally sourced ingredients, adding modern flavors and contemporary twists on classics. With African, Caribbean, and European influences...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 LUKGaines, Joanna
Summary: At the end of the day, it's gathering around the table and sharing a meal with the ones you love that make time spent in the kitchen worthwhile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 GAISummary: Using lard in cooking dates at least as far back as the 1300s. It is prized by pastry chefs today, and it is an excellent cooking fat because it burns at a very high temperature and tends not to smoke as heavily as many other fats and oils do. Rediscovered along with other healthful animal fats in the 1990s, lard is once again embraced by chefs and enlightened health-care professionals and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ONECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ONEStern, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 STELambert, Miranda
Summary: If you're going to have a Bitchin Kitchen, you're going to need a few things--plenty of room, plenty of good food for sharing, high spirits (in both senses) and all the friends and family you can fit. For Miranda Lambert, a good time means sharing a great meal with the women who helped raise her back in Texas--her mom and a colorful bunch of best friends who could raise the roof, come through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2023