Vibration Cooking: Or, the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl - Softcover

Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820337390 ISBN 13: 9780820337395

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2011

Synopsis

Vibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term “soul food” gained common use. While critics were quick to categorize her as a proponent of soul food, Smart-Grosvenor wanted to keep the discussion of her cookbook/memoir focused on its message of food as a source of pride and validation of black womanhood and black “consciousness raising”. This edition features a foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson placing the book in historical context and discussing Smart-Grosvenor’s approach to food and culture.

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Review:

You will learn from Vibration Cooking something about the anger, pride, generosity, and will of one black woman. Vertamae's autobiography-travelogue-cookbook has a rare distinction: There's something in it for everybody--of either sex or any color.

--Washington Post

The fact that Vibration Cooking is now in its fourth reprinting bespeaks both its popularity and its necessity. The current scholarly interest in women's studies, African American studies, African diasporic studies, and food studies provides no better time for reacquainting readers with Vertamae's work. Her book is no less important now than when she first penned it over forty years ago. . . . Black food is more than kitchen scraps; black women are more than mammy figures, and black culture is more than a monolith. . . . I like this book!

--Psyche Williams-Forson "from the foreword "

About the Author:

Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (1937-2016) was a poet, actress, culinary anthropologist, and writer. She is the author of Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap, Vertamae Cooks in the Americas' Family Kitchen, and Vertamae Cooks Again: More Recipes from the Americas' Family Kitchen. She has served as a correspondent and host for National Public Radio and written for the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Washington Post, Life, Ebony, and Essence.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0820337390
• ISBN 13: 9780820337395
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256