If I Can Cook/You Know God Can - Hardcover

Shange, Ntozake

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807072400 ISBN 13: 9780807072400

Publisher: Beacon Pr, 1998

Synopsis

From a renowned playwright, artist, and novelist comes a delectable collection of recipes celebrating African-American cuisine and portraying the dynamic origins of the recipes, from the slave ships of the Middle Passage to the jazz of Duke Ellington.

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Review:

Infused with a down-home feel and vernacular rhythms . . . this slim, lively book stimulates and elucidates, and is well worth chewing on.--Luis H. Francia, The Village Voice

"Shange stirs and simmers the soul and moves the reader/eater/cook to rethink every morsel of Pan-African history, personal celebration, and global pain that enters our lives when we gather around her magical hearth to laugh, to cry--but most indispensably--to eat."--Edwidge Danticat, author of The Farming of Bones

"This culinary memoir . . . is as valuable for its inspirational and factual nuggets as it is for its unusual recipes. . . . Soul-nourishing."--Carmela Ciuraru, Entertainment Weekly

"A captivating collection of African-American food memories, meditations and recipes." --Kathy Martin, Miami Herald

"Shange achieves . . . revolutionary splendor. She wraps history and legend and recipes and folklore around one big roti . . . makes a gumbo out of memories and laughter and recipes and black vernacular . . . throws spicy metaphors into recipes that have traveled from Africa and Brazil and the Caribbean and Brixton, England."--American Visions

"A fervent, richly impassioned chronicle of African American experience."--Booklist

Synopsis:

Gathers traditional recipes that reflect African American historical and cultural values.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0807072400
• ISBN 13: 9780807072400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 113