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Cookbook that Inspired Generations of Black Cooks

Enslaved children’s diet in 1850s Virginia

Ex-slave Nancy Green becomes “Aunt Jemima”

First African-American to dine at White House

Green Books guided black Americans to welcoming restaurants and inns

Books of Interest

African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture

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Black Hunger: Soul Food and America

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Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas

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

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Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power

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Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

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Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960

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Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama

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Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life

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High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America

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Iron Pots & Wooden Spoons: Africa’s Gifts to New World Cooking

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Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks

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Memphis Barbecue: A Succulent History of Smoke, Sauce & Soul

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President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families

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Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning

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Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America’s First Food

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Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time

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To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South

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