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The People's Place. Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today.
Dave Hoekstra
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Description for The People's Place. Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today.
Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: WBA; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 778.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. loved the fried catfish and lemon icebox pie at Memphis’s Four Way restaurant. Beloved nonagenarian chef Leah Chase introduced George W. Bush to baked cheese grits and scolded Barack Obama for putting Tabasco sauce on her gumbo at New Orleans’s Dooky Chase’s. When SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael asked Ben’s Chili Bowl owners Ben and Virginia Ali to keep the restaurant open during the 1968 Washington, DC, riots, they obliged, feeding police, firefighters, and student activists as they worked together to quell the violence.
Celebrated former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Dave Hoekstra unearths these stories and ... Read more
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. loved the fried catfish and lemon icebox pie at Memphis’s Four Way restaurant. Beloved nonagenarian chef Leah Chase introduced George W. Bush to baked cheese grits and scolded Barack Obama for putting Tabasco sauce on her gumbo at New Orleans’s Dooky Chase’s. When SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael asked Ben’s Chili Bowl owners Ben and Virginia Ali to keep the restaurant open during the 1968 Washington, DC, riots, they obliged, feeding police, firefighters, and student activists as they worked together to quell the violence.
Celebrated former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Dave Hoekstra unearths these stories and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Chicago Review Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781613730591
SKU
V9781613730591
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Reviews for The People's Place. Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today.
"Just about every African American musician and singer was raised on the soulful style of cooking and carries it close their hearts while sharing their own gift to the world. Seeing this collection of restaurants and photographs of those who made their presence so well known during this period in American history brings a great feeling of nostalgia as well ... Read more