Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island - Couverture rigide

Meggett, Emily

 
9781419758782: Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1419758780 ISBN 13 : 9781419758782
Editeur : Abrams, 2022

Synopsis

The first major Gullah Geechee cookbook from ôthe matriarch of Edisto Island,ö who provides delicious recipes and the history of an overlooked American communityThe history of the Gullah and Geechee people stretches back centuries, when enslaved members of this community were historically isolated from the rest of the South because of their location on the Sea Islands of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. Today, this Lowcountry community represents the most direct living link to the traditional culture, language, and foodways of their West African ancestors. Gullah Geechee Home Cooking, written by Emily Meggett, the matriarch of Edisto Island, is the preeminent Gullah cookbook. At 87 years old, and with more than 50 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Meggett is a respected elder in the Gullah community of South Carolina. She has lived on the island all her life, and even at her age, still cooks for hundreds of people out of her hallowed home kitchen. Her house is a place of pilgrimage for anyone with an

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À propos de l'auteur

Emily Meggett (1932-2023) was the matriarch of the Gullah community on Edisto Island, South Carolina. She has been featured on television and in print by PBS, the Food Network, Bon Appétit, Eater, and NPR. She is also a member of the family who was raised in the Point of Pines cabin, a 19th-century slave cabin from Edisto Island that has been relocated to Washington, DC, as the central exhibit of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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The first major Gullah Geechee cookbook from ôthe matriarch of Edisto Island,ö who provides delicious recipes and the history of an overlooked American communityThe history of the Gullah and Geechee people stretches back centuries, when enslaved members of this community were historically isolated from the rest of the South because of their location on the Sea Islands of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. Today, this Lowcountry community represents the most direct living link to the traditional culture, language, and foodways of their West African ancestors. Gullah Geechee Home Cooking, written by Emily Meggett, the matriarch of Edisto Island, is the preeminent Gullah cookbook. At 87 years old, and with more than 50 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Meggett is a respected elder in the Gullah community of South Carolina. She has lived on the island all her life, and even at her age, still cooks for hundreds of people out of her hallowed home kitchen. Her house is a place of pilgrimage for anyone with an

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Éditeur
Abrams
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1419758780
ISBN 13 
9781419758782
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
Arcane Wonders
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