African American Foodways or Tofu Mania

African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture

Author: Anne Lieberman Bower

Moving beyond catfish and collard greens to the soul of African American cooking

Ranging over the progression from seventeenth-century West African fare to contemporary fusion dishes using "soul food" ingredients, this book provides an introduction to many aspects of African American foodways. Examining the combination of African, Caribbean, and South American traditions, the volume's contributors offer insights from history, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, and African American studies to demonstrate how food's material and symbolic values have contributed to African Americans' identity for centuries. Individual chapters examine how African foodways survived the passage into slavery, cultural meanings associated with African American foodways, and the contents of African American cookbooks, both early and recent.



A volume in The Food Series, edited by Andrew W. Smith

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: Watching Soul Food   Anne L. Bower     1
The History of African American Food
Food Crops, Medicinal Plants, and the Atlantic Slave Trade   Robert L. Hall     17
Soul Food as Cultural Creation   William G. Whit     45
Excavating the South's African American Food History   Anne Yentsch     59
Representations of African American Food
From Fiction to Foodways: Working at the Intersections of African American Literary and Culinary Studies   Doris Witt     101
Chickens and Chains: Using African American Foodways to Understand Black Identities   Psyche Williams-Forson     126
Recipes for Respect: Black Hospitality Entrepreneurs before World War I   Rafia Zafar     139
Recipes for History: The National Council of Negro Women's Five Historical Cookbooks   Anne L. Bower     153
Contributors     175
Index     177

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Tofu Mania: 120 Easy Recipes for the Dishes You Love-with the Added Benefits of Tofu

Author: Brita Housez

Inexpensive, high in protein, rich in vitamins, iron, and calcium, low in fat, and free of cholesterol and lactose, tofu is truly a superfood. But some people shy away from the soy wonder because of its pallid appearance and seeming blandness—thinking something so healthy could never taste good. That's where Tofu Mania comes in—it makes cooking with tofu fun and tasty for everyone by showing readers how to incorporate it into their favorite dishes. Unlike tofu cookbooks that call for unfamiliar and hard-to-find ingredients, Tofu Mania adds tofu to such familiar dishes as macaroni and cheese, pizza, mashed potatoes, chocolate cake, brownies, and even whipped cream—without sacrificing great taste or texture. The 120 easy-to-prepare recipes cover breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as beverages, appetizers, dips, salads, and desserts.