Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine - Couverture souple

Deetz, Kelley

 
9780813198545: Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
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ISBN 10 : 0813198542 ISBN 13 : 9780813198545
Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 2023

Synopsis

For decades, smiling images of "Aunt Jemima" and other historical and fictional black cooks could be found on various food products and in advertising. Although these images were sanitized and romanticized in American popular culture, they represented the untold stories of enslaved men and women who had a significant impact on the nation's culinary and hospitality traditions, even as they were forced to prepare food for their oppressors. Kelley Fanto Deetz draws upon archaeological evidence, cookbooks, plantation records, and folklore to present a nuanced study of the lives of enslaved plantation cooks from colonial times through emancipation and beyond. She reveals how these men and women were literally "bound to the fire" as they lived and worked in the sweltering and often fetid conditions of plantation house kitchens. These highly skilled cooks drew upon knowledge and ingredients brought with them from their African homelands to create complex, labor-intensive dishes. However, their white owners overwhelmingly received the credit for their creations. Deetz restores these forgotten figures to their rightful place in American and Southern history by uncovering their rich and intricate stories and celebrating their living legacy with the recipes that they created and passed down to future generations.

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À propos de l'auteur

Historical archaeologist and historian Kelley Fanto Deetz is a research associate at the James River Institute for Archaeology, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Randolph College, in Lynchburg, Virginia. Deetz, who was a professional chef for several years, is a contributor to The Routledge History of Food and Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement. Her work has appeared in National Geographic History.

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Éditeur
The University Press of Kentucky
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813198542
ISBN 13 
9780813198545
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
186
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0813174732 ISBN 13 :  9780813174730
Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 2017
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