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The Jemima Code
Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award, 2016 Art of
Eating Prize, 2015 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 demeaning stereotype of an illiterate
\"Aunt Jemima\" who cooked mostly by natural instinct. To discover
the true role of black women in the creation of American, and
especially southern, cuisine, Toni Tipton-Martin has spent years
amassing one of the world's largest private collections of
cookbooks published by African American authors, looking for
evidence of their impact on American food, families, and
communities and for ways we might use that knowledge to inspire
community wellness of every kind.
The Jemima Code presents more than 150 black cookbooks
that range from a rare 1827 house servant's manual, the first book
published by an African American in the trade, to modern classics
by authors such as Edna Lewis and Vertamae Grosvenor. The books are
arranged chronologically and illustrated with photos of their
covers; many also display selected interior pages, including
recipes. Tipton-Martin provides notes on the authors and their
contributions and the significance of each book, while her chapter
introductions summarize the cultural history reflected in the books
that follow. These cookbooks offer firsthand evidence that African
Americans cooked creative masterpieces from meager provisions,
educated young chefs, operated food businesses, and nourished the
African American community through the long struggle for human
rights. The Jemima Code transforms America's most maligned
kitchen servant into an inspirational and powerful model of
culinary wisdom and cultural authority.
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Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child
It is rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It is even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. And yet, that is exactly what Julia Child did. The warble voiced doyenne of television cookery became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule breaker as she touched off the food revolution that has gripped America for more than fifty years. --From publisher description.
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The Jemima code : two centuries of African American cookbooks
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Escoffier
Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) was the first great star of modern cooking.Acknowledged during his lifetime as the greatest chef in the world, his clientele included Edward VII and Kaiser Wilhelm II, as well as the leaders of society and of fashion.
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Who was Julia Child?
\"Born in California in 1912, Julia Child enlisted in the Army and met her future husband, Paul, during World War II. She discovered her love of French food while stationed in Paris and enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu cooking school after her service. Child knew that Americans would love French food as much as she did, so she wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 1961. The book was a success and the public wanted more. America fell in love with Julia Child. Her TV show, The French Chef, premiered in 1963 and brought the bubbling and lovable chef into millions of homes. Find out more about this beloved chef, author, and TV personality in Who Was Julia Child?\"--Amazon.com.
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The True Story of Alice B. Toklas
In this original and intriguing study, Anna Linzie examines three mid-twentieth-century texts never before treated as interrelated in a book-length work of literary criticism: Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and Alice B. Toklas's The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954) and What Is Remembered (1963). Taking these three texts as intertexts or as an assemblage of the true story of Alice B. Toklas, Linzie challenges assumptions about primary authorship and singular identity that have continued to limit lesbian and feminist rereadings of autobiography as a genre and of Stein and Toklas as writers and historical figures.The True Story of Alice B. Toklas explores how the concept of autobiography as a primarily referential genre is challenged and transformed in relation to autobiographical texts written about the same person, the same life, but differently, by different writers, at different points in time. The concept of one true story is deconstructed in the process as Linzie modifies Homi K. Bhabha's “almost the same but not quite/not white\" for the purposes of this particular study as “almost the same but not quite/not straight.\" The investigation moves simultaneously on the planes of textuality and sexuality in order to provisionally articulate a “lesbian autobiographical subject\" in Linzie's reading of these three texts.Linzie's study fills a gap in literary criticism where Stein's companion and her work have been more or less neglected, conceptualizing the Stein-Toklas sexual/textual relationship as fundamentally reciprocal. The True Story of Alice B. Toklas provides a new critical perspective on Toklas as indispensable to Stein's literary production, a cultural laborer in her own right, and a writer of her own books. Making a significant contribution to recent lesbian/feminist reconceptualizations of the genre of autobiography, this study will fascinate Stein and Toklas scholars as well as those interested in queer and autobiography studies.
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The French chef in America : Julia Child's second act
\"Julia Child is synonymous with French cooking, but her legacy runs much deeper. Now, her great-nephew and My Life in France coauthor vividly recounts the myriad ways in which she profoundly shaped how we eat today. He shows us Child in the aftermath of the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, suddenly finding herself America's first lady of French food and under considerable pressure to embrace her new mantle. We see her dealing with difficult colleagues and the challenges of fame, ultimately using her newfound celebrity to create what would become a totally new type of food television. Every bit as entertaining, inspiring, and delectable as My Life in France, The French Chef in America uncovers Julia Child beyond her \"French chef\" persona and reveals her second act to have been as groundbreaking and adventurous as her first,\"--Amazon.com.
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The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown: A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His Way Through The 20th Century
Contemporary publishing, e-media, and writing owe much to an unsung hero who worked in the trenches of the culture industry (for pulp magazines, Hollywood films, and advertising) and caroused and collaborated with the avant-garde throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Robert Carlton Brown (1886-1959) turned up in the midst of virtually every significant American literary, artistic, political, and popular or countercultural movement of his time--from Chicago's Cliff Dweller's Club to Greenwich Village's bohemians and the Imagist poets; from the American vanguard expatriate groups in Europe to the Beats. Bob Brown churned out pulp fiction and populist cookbooks, created the first movie tie-ins, and invented a surreal reading machine more than seventy-five years ahead of e-books. He was a real-life Zelig of modern culture. With The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown, Craig Saper disentangles, for the first time, the many lives and careers of the intriguing figure behind so much of twentieth-century culture. Saper's lively and engaging yet erudite and subtly experimental style offers a bold new approach to biography that perfectly complements his multidimensional subject. Readers are brought along on a spirited journey with Bob and the Brown clan--Cora (his mother), Rose (his wife), and Bob, a creative team who sometimes went by the name of CoRoBo--through globetrotting, fortune-making and fortune-spending, culture-creating and culture-exploring adventures. Along the way, readers meet many of the most important cultural figures and movements of the era and are witness to the astonishingly prescient vision Brown held of the future of American cultural life in the digital age. Although Brown traveled and lived all around the world, he took Manhattan with him, and his New York City had boroughs around the world.
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