The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks

by Toni Tipton-Martin

Book Overview

Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award, 2016
Art of Eating Prize, 2015
BCALA Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 2016

Women of African descent have contributed to America's food culture for centuries, but their rich and varied involvement is still overshadowed by the demeaning stereotype of an illiterate "Aunt Jemima" who cooked mostly by natural instinct...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292745486
• ISBN13: 9780292745483
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 3.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.4" x 11.2"