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Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor - Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl - 9780820337395 - V9780820337395
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Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl

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Description for Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Vibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term “soul food” gained common use. While critics were quick to categorize her as a proponent of soul food, Smart-Grosvenor wanted to keep the discussion of her cookbook/memoir focused on its message of food as a source of pride and validation of black womanhood and black “consciousness raising.”

In 1959, at the age of nineteen, Smart-Grosvenor sailed to Europe, “where the bohemians lived and let live.” Among the cosmopolites of radical Paris, the Gullah girl from the South Carolina low country quickly realized that the most universal lingua ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820337395
SKU
V9780820337395
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (1937–2016) was a poet, actress, culinary anthropologist, and writer. 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 ... Read more

Reviews for Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
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 everybody―of either sex or any color." —Washington Post "The fact that Vibration Cooking is now in its fourth reprinting bespeaks both its popularity and its necessity. The current scholarly interest ... Read more

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