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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.
- 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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