Category: Soul food

• Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew by Michael W. Twitty

  

  “most importantly, Twitty reminds us that you don’t have to be Black or Jewish to love koshersoul.” Both a cookbook and a memoir, Koshersoul (Amistad) explores the food traditions of both Black and Jewish cultures and how for Black Jewish people, the two combine, becoming a distinctive foodway of its own. “When I first started…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 10, 2024

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• Angela Medearis: The Ultimate Kitchen Diva

  

  “People are eating African American food every day, but they don’t know it,” Angela Shelf Medearis says to me when we chat on the phone. In part, she’s talking about James Hemings who, in the complicated way of slavery, trained in the culinary arts in Paris and became a noted chef de cuisine and yet…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  December 31, 2023

  #BookTok, 57th Street Books, Cookbooks, Food, Food History, Recipes, Soul food

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