Hog and Hominy Soul Food from Africa to America

Name: Hog and Hominy Soul Food from Africa to America
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ISBN: 9780231146395

ISBN-10: 0231146396

ISBN-13: 9780231146395

Edition: 2010

Authors: Frederick Opie

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Frederick Opie's culinary history is an insightful portrait of the social and religious relationship between people of African descent and their cuisine. Beginning with the Atlantic slave trade and concluding with the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Opie composes a global history of African American foodways and the concept of soul itself, revealing soul food to be an amalgamation of West and Central African social and cultural influences as well as the adaptations blacks made to the conditions of slavery and freedom in the Americas.Soul is the style of rural folk culture, embodying the essence of suffering, endurance, and survival. Soul food comprises dishes made from simple,…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/2/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English