If I can cook, you know God can / Ntozake Shange ; foreword by Vertamae Grosvenor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shange, Ntozake.

Contributor:

Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae, writer of foreword.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Cookbooks (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American cooking.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 113 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm

Other Title:

If I can cook / you know God can

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, c1998.

Summary:

Ntozake Shange offers this eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a true food of life, one that reflects the tenacious spirit and powerful history of a people. With recipes that include everything from Cousin Eddie's Shark with Breadfruit to Collard Greens to Bring You Money, Shange instructs us in the nuances of a cuisine born on the slave ships of the Middle Passage, spiced by the jazz of Duke Ellington, and shared by all members of the African Diaspora. From the flyin' fish controversy (yes, that's right, flyin' fish) between Trinidad and Tobago, to a union of spirits in the once-divided nation of Nicaragua, we enter a world where adaptation and experimentation are a matter of course, where history and pain have forged nations, but food has founded culture.

Contents:

Learning to be hungry / Holdin' on together

What'd you people call that?

What we don't say in public

All it took was a road / Surprise of urban renewal

Birthday in Brixton

Too many fish in the sea

Brazil: more African than Africans

What is it we really harvestin' here?

Westward ho! Anywhere must be better 'n here!

Better late than never

Is that why the Duke had a train of his own?

And what did you serve? Oh, no, you did not!

Virtual realities, real people, real foods

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-108).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is paperback reprinting in Bluestreak series with cover photograph by Adál measuring 21 cm.

ISBN:

0807072400

1858988454

0807072419

OCLC:

37721281