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“A celebration of African American cuisine right now, in all of its abundance and variety.”—Tejal Rao, The New York Times
JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • IACP AWARD WINNER • IACP BOOK OF THE YEAR
TONI TIPTON-MARTIN NAMED THE 2021 JULIA CHILD AWARD RECIPIENT AND THE 2025 WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION’S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
A BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York...
JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • IACP AWARD WINNER • IACP BOOK OF THE YEAR
TONI TIPTON-MARTIN NAMED THE 2021 JULIA CHILD AWARD RECIPIENT AND THE 2025 WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION’S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
A BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York...
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Cozy Cookbooks
HPL Black History Month - Adult Nonfiction 2026
HPL Black History Month 2023
Cozy Cookbooks
HPL Black History Month - Adult Nonfiction 2026
HPL Black History Month 2023
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"A cookbook celebrating the food of the African diaspora, from Nigeria and Ethiopia to the Bronx, the Caribbean, and the American South, from the James Beard Award-winning author of Notes from a Young Black Chef"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Mahalia's Sweet Tea is known for serving the best soul food in Prince George's County, Maryland. But owner Halia also likes to indulge in some O la carte detective work. Can she solve the murder of a former omean girlo when a high school reunion takes a deadly turn? When the organizing committee for her upcoming high school reunion desperately needs a caterer, Halia agrees to help out. Soon she's serving up her signature macaroni and cheese and famous...
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"Rising star chef and food activist Bryant Terry is known for his simple, creative, and delicious vegan dishes inspired by African American cooking. In this ... cookbook, he remixes foods of the African diaspora to create ... recipes such as corn maque choux-stuffed Jamaican patties with hot pepper sauce, berebere-spiced black-eyed pea sliders, crispy teff-grit cakes with eggplant, tomatoes, and peanuts, and groundnut stew with winter vegetables and...
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GPLD 2025 Fall Favorites: Picture Books/Kids Nonfiction
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A young African American boy joins his grandma's weekly ritual of catching and frying fish for a big family dinner.
9) Sweet potato soul: 100 easy vegan recipes for the southern flavors of smoke, sugar, spice, and soul
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Claiborne shares soul food and Southern cooking plant-based recipes. She explores the history behind some of the recipes, as well as their innate health benefits. If you've wondered how one can make dandelion, mustard, and turnip greens into nutrition superstars, this is your chance to see how Claiborne infuses these plants with the flavors and the depth that feed the soul.
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It is long past time to recognize Black excellence in the culinary world the same way it has been celebrated in the worlds of music, sports, literature, film, and the arts. Black cooks and creators have led American culture forward with indelible contributions of artistry and ingenuity from the start, but Black authorship has been consistently erased from the story of American food. Now, in The Rise, chef, author, and television star Marcus Samuelsson...
12) Fix me a plate: traditional and new school soul food recipes from Scotty Scott of Cook Drank Eat
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Get ready to shake up your home cooking with the most soul-satisfying dishes you've ever encountered. From hilarious and beloved chef Scotty Scott comes a deep dive into the delicious world of soul food, showcasing traditional recipes as well as awe-inspiring remixes on the classics. Learn the history behind how these iconic dishes came to be so embedded in soulful southern culture, and follow along as Scotty tells the heartwarming, sometimes side-splitting...
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From the renowned Tuskegee Institute of Alabama, founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881, this one-of-a-kind narrative cookbook traces the history and heritage of Tuskegee through reminiscences, vintage photographs, poetry, journal entries and more than 200 recipes that celebrate the diverse and mothering flavors of Southern African American cuisine.
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Celebrating the Gullah/Geechee culinary traditions of her family and sharing family anecdotes, memories, and helpful tips, the breakout star of Food Network's top-rated show Delicious Miss Brown presents dishes combining West African herbs, spices, and grains with traditional Southern cooking.
15) For the culture: phenomenal Black women and femmes in food : interviews, inspiration, and recipes
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"Chef and writer Klancy Miller found her own way by trial and error-as a pastry chef, recipe developer, author, and founder of For the Culture magazine-but what if she had known then what she knows now? What if she had known the extraordinary women profiled within these pages-entrepreneurs, chefs, food stylists, mixologists, historians, influencers, hoteliers, and more-and learned from their stories? Like Leah Penniman, a farmer using Afro-Indigenous...
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Jewish American Heritage Month - Adult
Jewish American Heritage Month - Adults
2024 FPPL May Jewish American Heritage Month Picks
Jewish American Heritage Month - Adults
2024 FPPL May Jewish American Heritage Month Picks
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"The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To Twitty, the creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation...
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"This book contains more than 125 recipes, including soul food standards, classics with creative twists and even a few lightened up recipes"-- Provided by publisher.
Soul food favorites comes to life, as Mayes shares the secrets of mouthwatering southern classics, all using easy-to-find ingredients. Though she was born and raised in Seattle, Mayes' cooking is firmly rooted in the traditions of her maternal grandparents from Baton Rouge, Louisiana....
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James Beard Award-winning chef Bryant Terry's first cookbook, a vegan homage to Southern, African American, and Afro-Caribbean food
One of the foremost voices in food activism and justice, Bryant Terry brings soul food back to its roots with plant-based, farm-to-table, real food recipes that leave out heavy salt and refined sugar, "bad" fats, and unhealthy cooking techniques, and leave in the down-home flavor. “Vegan Soul Kitchen” recipes use...