My ackee tree : a chef's memoir of finding home in the kitchen / Suzanne Barr with Suzanne Hancock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barr, Suzanne (Cook), author.

Hancock, Suzanne, 1971- author.

Contributor:

James Samuel Blank Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooks--Canada--Biography.

Cooks.

Women cooks--Canada--Biography.

Women cooks.

Barr, Suzanne (Cook).

Barr, Suzanne.

Canada.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 233 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Toronto] : Penguin Canada, 2022.

Summary:

"For fans of The Measure of My Powers and Notes from a Young Black Chef, a memoir about food, family, and the recipes that brought one woman home, just when she needed it the most. Suzanne Barr's journey to become a chef started when she was 30. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer and she moved home to Florida to take care of her. Suzanne escorted her mother to doctor's appointments, bathed her, and kept her company, but the hardest part of the experience was that she didn't know how to cook for her. She didn't even know where to begin. Fast-forward to the summer of 2017 when Suzanne became the inaugural Chef-in-Residence at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. She wanted to create a menu that represented who she was as a chef and it emerged as a love letter to her mother. Her Rite of Passage Menu, as she called it, changed her. It started her on a journey that has brought her closer to her mother, to her ancestors, and to her Jamaican heritage. But a lot has happened before and since. Homecoming tells the story of a woman who is always on the move, always seeking; who battles the stereotypes of being a Black female cook to become a culinary star in an industry beset by dated practices and landlords with too much power. From the ackee tree in front of her childhood home, through New York City, Atlanta, Hawaii, the Hamptons, and France, Suzanne takes us on her unpredictable journey, and at every turn, she finds light and comfort in the kitchen. Told in a voice as fresh and honest as her cooking, Homecoming is a celebration of creativity, soul searching, and motherhood that asks, 'How can I keep the things I love?'"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Childhood: Nah every crab hole get crab

2. Leaving: When coconut fall from tree he can't fasten back

3. Work: One one coco full basket

4. Saturday Dinette: Tiddeh ft mi tomorra fiyuh

5. Endurance: Pepper bun hot but it good fi curry

6. Rite Of Passage: New broom sweep clean, but owl broom noe dem cahna.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Barr, Suzanne (Cook) My ackee tree.

ISBN:

9780735239500

0735239509

OCLC:

1250391946

Publisher Number:

99992600541