Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night - Hardcover

Sallie Ann Robinson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807831506 ISBN 13: 9780807831502

Publisher: University North Carolina Pr, 2007

Synopsis

Sallie Ann Robinson was born and reared on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for their Gullah culture. Although technology and development were slow in coming to Daufuskie, the island is now changing rapidly. With this book, Robinson highlights some of her favorite memories and delicious recipes from life on Daufuskie, where the islanders traditionally ate what they grew in the soil, caught in the river, and hunted in the woods. The unique food traditions of Gullah culture contain a blend of African, European, and Native American influences. Reflecting the rhythm of a day in the kitchen, from breakfast to dinner (and anywhere in between), this cookbook collects seventy-five recipes for easy-to-prepare, robustly flavored dishes. Robinson also includes twenty-five folk remedies, demonstrating how in the Gullah culture, in the not-so-distant past, food and medicine were closely linked and the sea and the land provided what islanders needed to survive. In her spirited introduction and chapter openings, Robinson describes how cooking the Gullah way has enriched her life, from her childhood on the island to her adulthood on the nearby mainland.

About this title

Review:

[T]he recipes allow us all to savor Robinson's taste of Gullah culture and to recreate her world in our own.
--Jessica B. Harris, from the Foreword

. . . [E]ach [recipe] could be filed under one or more of the three S's: simple, soul food or seafood.
--"Publishers Weekly"

Spend some time with [Robinson] yourself . . . and you'll feel marvelously satisfied in both your belly and your heart.
--"Ann Arbor News"

About the Author:

Sallie Ann Robinson was born and raised on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, and is dedicated to sharing the richness of her native Gullah culture. She now lives in Savannah, Georgia. Gregory Wrenn Smith is a photographer, writer, and editor who has worked to document the history and culture of the South Carolina Lowcountry. He lives in Bluffton, South Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: University North Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0807831506
• ISBN 13: 9780807831502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176