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Ideas for entertaining from the African-American kitchen / Angela Shelf Medearis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection Banks Cookbooks 57
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Medearis, Angela Shelf, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American cooking.
- Holiday cooking--United States.
- Holiday cooking.
- Entertaining--United States.
- Entertaining.
- Menus.
- United States.
- Holiday cookery--United States.
- African American cookery.
- Local Subjects:
- Holiday cookery--United States.
- African American cookery.
- Menus.
- Entertaining--United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 307, [5] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y., U.S.A.] : Dutton [published by the Penguin Group, ©1997].
- Summary:
- Provides recipes and suggestions for celebrations for African-American holidays and special occasions throughout the year.
- Contents:
- January. Emancipation Day; Jubilee Dinner Party; An Afrocentric Baby Shower; Martin Luther King Day Celebration
- February. African-American History Month Buffet; African-Style Engagement Dinner for Two
- March. Women in History Month; Sisters' Rejuvenation Brunch
- April. Traditional Easter Party; Blue Monday Party
- May. National Malcolm X Day Dinner; Memorial Day Dinner on the Grounds Picnic
- June. Juneteenth Caribbean-Style Dinner; Jumping the Broom Rehearsal Dinner
- July. Fourth of July Family Reunion Barbecue
- August. Young Adult Rites of Passage Dinner
- September. Honoring the Ancestors-Parents' Day Dinner
- October. Heroes' Day Children's Party
- November. Thanksgiving Harvest Celebration Dinner
- December. An Old-fashioned Christmas Dinner; Kwanzaa Karamu Feast.
- Notes:
- "A Dutton Book."
- "First Printing, November, 1997."
- "Set in Century Expanded."
- "Designed by Eve L. Kirch."
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0525940715
- 9780525940715
- OCLC:
- 37011335
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