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Finally Giving Credit Where It Is Due in the US Cooking Scene

The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin

September 23, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

CBR Bingo Review #I’ve lost track: UnCannon I was thinking about using N.K. Jemisin’s Fifth Element here, but then I figured that was actually somewhat in my wheelhouse as it’s fantasy and queer. Not so much my standard wheelhouse is American History non-fiction. To make it palatable, I found what’s basically history via thing I do like: cookbooks. Scholar and cookbook collector Toni Tipton-Martin is not old (she’s later middle aged, about 60), not white (African American), and not a man. When I was checking […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: african american history, American History, cbr12bingo, cookbooks, cooking, food writing, The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks, Toni Tipton-Martin

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:80 · Genres: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: african american history, American History, cbr12bingo, cookbooks, cooking, food writing, The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks, Toni Tipton-Martin ·
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