Kategoria BISAC: Cooking >> Regional & Ethnic - African

Africa's art of cooking is a key part of its history. All toooften Africa is associated with famine, but in Stirring the Pot, James C. McCann describes how the ingredients, the practices, and the varied tastes of African cuisine comprise a body of historically gendered knowledge practiced and perfected in householdsacross diverse human and ecological landscape. McCannreveals how tastes and culinary practices are integral to the understanding of history and more generally to the new literature on food as social history.

Stirring the Pot offers a...

Sampling from travel accounts, periodicals, government reports on food and diet, and interviews with more than thirty people born before 1945, Opie reconstructs an interrelated...

"A cookbook by Paula Wolfert is cause for celebration. Ms. Wolfert may be America's most knowledgeable food person and her books are full of insight, passion and brilliance."
--Anthony Dias Blue, CBS Radio, NY

"I think she's one of the finest and most influential food writers in this country...one of the leading lights in contemporary gastronomy."
--Craig Claiborne

Paula Wolfert, the undisputed queen of Mediterranean cooking, provides food lovers with the definitive guide to The Food of Morocco. Lavishly photographed and packed with tantalizing recipes to...

Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, and tracking the trials that the people and the food have undergone along the way. From chitlins and ham hocks to fried chicken and vegan soul, Harris celebrates the delicious and restorative foods of the African American experience and details how each came to form an important part of African American culture, history, and identity. Although the story of African cuisine in America begins with...

"A Basic Guide to Understanding the Qur'an:

For the first time in Islamic history, interested non Arabic-speaking laymen can easily and quickly navigate the pages of the Qur'an and have immediate access to clear and accurate information.

This book is the first guide of its kind and it will help:

1. Remove the mystery of the Qur'an.
2. Show the common areas between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
3. Help the reader make an intelligent and well-educated judgment about the religion of Islam based on personal knowledge gained from reading direct...

Africa. A word that conjures up images of safaris, wildlife, and tribal drums, but not usually food. Until now.

When author M. E. Chidiac turned her passion for African safaris into a wildlife photography career, she also began gathering recipes from every corner of Africa -such as the fragrant dishes of North Africa, the exotic tastes from the African islands, and the contemporary creations of South Africa.

Now, the Paris-trained foodie is sharing her discoveries in Cooking African: The Discovered Cuisine, a collection of over one hundred exciting, easy-to-create and...