Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (787 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820337390 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Washington Post)The fact that Vibration Cooking is now in its fourth reprinting bespeaks both its popularity and its necessity. You will learn from Vibration Cooking something about the anger, pride, generosity, and will of one black woman. Vertamae’s autobiography-travelogue-cookbook has a rare distinction: There’s something in it for everybodyof either sex or any color. I like this book! (Psyche Williams-Forson from the foreword) . Her book is no less important now than when she first penned it over forty years ago. Black food is more than kitchen scraps; black women are more than mammy figures, and black culture is more than a monolith. The current scholarly interest in women’s studies, African American studies, African diasporic studies, and food studies provides no better time for reacquainting readers with Vertamae’s work
"Vibration Cooking" according to Doris. I was looking for a recipe for the original pound cake with one pound ingredients including one pound of sugar, one poundof flour, one pound of butter, etc. The recipe was in this book along with some other wonderful old-fashioned recipes.. I love this book because it is not the traditional modern I love this book because it is not the traditional modern take on a cookbook with museum quality full page photos and measurements in English , metric and any other way they can think to measure.This is old school no pictures, with just ingredients and description. The stories and commentary are what really makes the book. You really come away liking Vertamae and are intrigued by her approach . "Bad Printing" according to Buyer. The book I recieved was printed incorrectly with lots of upside down and backward pages. When I finally got around to reading it, I found the printing company failed me. But the writing is AWESOME. Please send me a new and correct book?
We meet Estella Smart, Vertamae’s grandmother and connoisseur of mountain oysters; Uncle Costen, who lived to be 112 and knew how to make Harriet Tubman Ragout; and Archie Shepp, responsible for Collard Greens à la Shepp, to name a few. Vibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term “soul food” gained common use. A new preface by the author details how she came to write Vibration Cooking.. She also tells us how poundcake got her a marriage proposal (she didn’t accept) and how she perfected omelettes in Paris, enchiladas in New Mexico, biscuits in Mississippi, and feijoida in Brazil. While critics were quick to categorize her as a proponent of soul food, Smart-Grosvenor wanted to keep the discussion of her cookbook/
She is the author of "Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap," "Vertamae Cooks in the Americas Family Kitchen," and "Vertamae Cooks Again: More Recipes from the Americas Family Kitchen." She has served as a correspondent and host for National Public Radio and written for the "New York Times," the "Village Voice," the "Washington Post," "Life," "Ebony," and "Essence."" . Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor is a poet, actress, culinary anthropologist, and writer