Celebrating Our Equality: A Cookbook with Recipes and Remembrances from Howard University

by Carolyn Quick Tillery

In this enticing sequel to her bestselling book A Taste of Freedom, Carolyn Quick Tillery celebrates the most mouthwatering African-American recipes ever invented while also paying homage to Howard University, the nation's historic first black university. Where A Taste of Freedom explored the heroic black struggle for freedom and education, Celebrating Our Equality chronicles a newly freed people's continuing battle for equality and justice. Established...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806525088
• ISBN13: 9780806525082
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.6" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

A TASTY SLICE OF HBCU HISTORY

If you liked the African American Heritage Cookbook: Recipes and Remembrances From Tuskegee Institute and A Taste of Freedom: Recipes and Remembrances From Hampton Institute, you will love, CELEBRATING OUR EQUALITY another cookbook in this, recently branded, African American Heritage Cookbook Series. Selected by book of the month clubs and organizations such as Reading is Fundamental, books in this series are more than just cookbooks. They also trace the unique history, heritage and contibutions of historic black colleges and universities (HBCUs). And the recipes, which, for the most part, are regional to each area, are as delectable as the history. CELEBRATING OUR EQUALITY concentrates on the delicious offerings of Washington D.C., home of Howard University. Where available recipes unique to the college or university are used and clearly identified. Otherwise, the history of the recipes is the collective history of a courageous race of people who took the scraps offered to them and built an enduring monument to survival and a legacy of learning. Aptly titled, "CELEBRATING OUR EQUALITY," the third cookbook in this series focuses upon the contributions of Howard university, the nation's first black university. Where A Taste of Freedom explored the historic black struggle for freedom and education, CELEBRATING OUR EQUALITY chronicles a newly freed people's continuing battle for equality and justice. Established in 1867 to educate African-Americans freed by the Civil War, Howard University is credited with being at the forefront of the civil rights struggle. Nine of the ten attorneys who argued Brown v. Board of Education, which ended public school segregation, were either Howard University professors or Howard Law School graduates. Most noted among the latter group was Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to sit on the United States Supreme Court. Founders, supporters, students and teachers lend their vivid accounts of life in the early years at Howard. And interwoven into this fascinating history are recipes that are sure to warm the heart and nurture the soul. Filled with intriguing anecdotes, and accompanied by over fifty vintage photographs and illustrations, CELEBRATING OUR EQUALITY is at once a powerful tribute to a venerable American institution and a salute to the accomplishments made by a people who turned their hard-won freedom into a chance to change the course of history. Watch for the next cookbook in this series, which pays tasty tribute to our nation's historic black colleges and universities.