Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South

by Rebecca Sharpless

Book Overview

While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems. Rebecca Sharpless here weaves a brilliant chronicle, vast in perspective and entertaining in detail, revealing how three global food traditions--Indigenous American, European, and African--collided with and merged in the economies, cultures, and foodways of the South to create what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146966836X
• ISBN13: 9781469668369
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"