Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.61 (598 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820337390 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Vibration Cooking 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" according to Unknown Bibliophile. 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 V. Buyer said Bad Printing. 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?
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. 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. “I cook by vibration.”This edition features a foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson placing the book in historical context and discussing Smart-Grosvenor’s approach to food and culture. As she recounts a cool cat’s nine lives as chanter, dancer, costume designer, and member of the Sun Ra Solar-Myth Arkestra, Smart-Grosvenor introduces us to a rich cast of characters. 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 “conscious
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
Her book is no less important now than when she first penned it over forty years ago. I like this book! (Psyche Williams-Forson from the foreword) . 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. 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. Black food is more than kitchen scraps; black women are more than mammy figures, and black culture is more th