Sylvia's family soul food cookbook : from Hemingway, South Carolina to Harlem / Sylvia Woods and family with Melissa Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woods, Sylvia (Sylvia Pressley)

Clark, Melissa, author.

Contributor:

Acevedo, Melanie, photographer.

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.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, [1], 275, [1] pages, [8] pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

[First Edition]

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., [©1999].

Summary:

Sylvia's Family Soul Food Cookbook begins as Sylvia recalls her childhood, when she lived with both her mother and her grandmother, the town's only midwives. The entire community of Hemingway, South Carolina, shared responsibilities, helped raise all of the children, and worked side by side together every day in the bean fields. Perhaps most important, the community shared its food and recipes. When Sylvia set out to write this cookbook, she decided to hold a cook-off back home in Hemingway at Jeremiah Church. Family and friends of all ages shared their favorite dishes as well as their spirit and love for one another. The recipes offered at the cook-off were then compiled to create this incredible collection, along with many of Sylvia's and the Woods family's own recipes. Here are the kinds of recipes you'd find if you visited the Woods family's home. In this remarkable cookbook, Sylvia has gathered more than 125 soul food classics. These recipes are straight from the heart of the Woods community of family and friends. Now Sylvia gives them to you to share with your loved ones. Bring them into your home and experience a little bit of Hemingway's soul.

Contents:

Introduction

Warming soups and relishes

Chicken and turkey

Beef

Pork

Game

Fish and seafood

Side dishes and salads

Biscuits and breadstuffs

Pudding, pies and a poon

Sweet cakes, sugar cookies and lemonade.

Notes:

"Color photographs copyright © 1999 by Melanie Acevedo."

"First Edition."

"Designed by Renato Stanisic."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has [2] packing slips laid in.

ISBN:

0688162193 :

9780688162191

OCLC:

40199961

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