cookbooks

Jubilee by Toni Tipton-Martin Brown Sugar Kitchen by Tanya Holland Son of a Southern Chef by Lazarus Lynch Black Girl Baking by Jerrelle Guy Grandbaby Cakes by Jocelyn Delk Adams The Dooky Chase Cookbook by Leah Chase Black Food by Bryant Terry Princess Pamela’s Soul Food Cookbook by Pamela Strobel (a favorite) The Taste of…

Read More Cookbooks By Black Chefs And Authors

At the end of the year, people spend a lot of time writing lists of “the best of” so I am thinking about my “best of” list. Cooking has kept me sane when I wanted to be crazy, well, not wanted but certainly felt crazy. Here is a list of some of our favorite cookbooks…

Read More 20 Cookbooks for 2020

Did you know that Americans eat more chicken than any other kind of meat?I bought a small chicken the other day, stuffed it with onion and apple, and baked it. When I took it out of the oven, the baking dish was full of liquid, FULL. It was the weirdest tasting chicken I’ve ever had.…

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By: Taryn Pire| Dec. 1, 2020 [I can personally vouch for most of these. If you want yummy eating, and not too complicated, these recipes are the way to go.] You may know Jocelyn Delk Adams, food blogger and author of the award-winning Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories, for her stunning desserts. But it turns out the baker extraordinaire…

Read More 28 Soul Food Recipes That Southerners Swear By (and Northerners Need to Try)

Omari McQueen’s Best Bites Cook Book (due Jan 2021) Living Lively: 80 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential, Haile Thomas In Bibi’s Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean, Hawa Hassan (due Oct 13) Eziban Vol. 1: Recipes Across The Black Diaspora,  download…

Read More My Best Cookbooks of 2020 (so far)

Who Is Princess Pamela? A Southern Cooking Legend Returns Who is Princess Pamela? The author of my favorite cookbook. The original one, not this new, white folks version. The book, written in 1969, is a collection of recipes from The Little Kitchen, Pamela Strobel’s twelve-seat soul food restaurant, which she opened in Manhattan’s East Village…

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