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I was never here and this never happened : tasty bits and spicy tales from my life / Dorinda Hafner.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection Banks Cookbooks 116
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hafner, Dorinda.
Contributor:
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):
Folklore--Ghana.
Folklore.
Food habits--Ghana.
Food habits.
Cooking, Ghanaian.
Ghana--Social life and customs.
Ghana.
Manners and customs.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
ix, [1], 182 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
Berkeley, California : Ten Speed Press, [1996].
Contents:
Who I am and why I'm writing this book
The first time I ever cooked for my father
My mother's wisdom
Shooshoonsha, Shoonsha
Bamboo fish
Ashanti women
Fields of vision
Hunger go to sleep
Hundred pounds double bass
I was never here and this never happened
Do as I say or I'll pepper you
The fire that melted the butter must have coddled the egss
The way to the river
The color of underwear
The straw that almost broke my back
Aren't you in psychiatry?
Let the dancing do the talking!
Why the black woman smiles.
Notes:
"A Kirsty Melville Book."
"Cover and interior design by Nancy Austin."
"Map by Akiko Shurtleff."
"First printing, 1996."
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
ISBN:
0898156416
9780898156416
OCLC:
228438267

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