Author: NMAAHC

Brand: Smithsonian Books

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Illustrated

Binding: Hardcover

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 224

Release Date: 23-10-2018

Details: Product Description A celebration of African American cooking with 109 recipes from the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Sweet Home Café. Named a 2019 James Beard Foundation Book Award nominee for best American cookbook; a Food & Wine best cookbook of fall 2018; a Booklist top 10 food book of 2018; an Essence Oct 2018 pick, and more. Since the 2016 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, its Sweet Home Café has become a destination in its own right. Showcasing African American contributions to American cuisine, the café offers favorite dishes made with locally sourced ingredients, adding modern flavors and contemporary twists on classics. Now both readers and home cooks can partake of the café's bounty: drawing upon traditions of family and fellowship strengthened by shared meals, Sweet Home Café Cookbook celebrates African American cooking through recipes served by the café itself and dishes inspired by foods from African American culture. With 109 recipes, the sumptuous Sweet Home Café Cookbook takes readers on a deliciously unique journey. Presented here are the salads, sides, soups, snacks, sauces, main dishes, breads, and sweets that emerged in America as African, Caribbean, and European influences blended together. Featured recipes include Pea Tendril Salad, Fried Green Tomatoes, Hoppin' John, Sénégalaise Peanut Soup, Maryland Crab Cakes, Jamaican Grilled Jerk Chicken, Shrimp & Grits, Fried Chicken and Waffles, Pan Roasted Rainbow Trout, Hickory Smoked Pork Shoulder, Chow Chow, Banana Pudding, Chocolate Chess Pie, and many others. More than a collection of inviting recipes, this book illustrates the pivotal--and often overlooked--role that African Americans have played in creating and re-creating American foodways. Offering a deliciously new perspective on African American food and culinary culture, Sweet Home Café Cookbook is an absolute must-have. Review 2019 James Beard Foundation Book Award nominee for best American cookbook One of Food & Wine's Best Cookbooks Coming Out in Fall 2018 One of Booklist's Top 10 Food Books of 2018 One of Essence's Picks, October 2018 One of the best holiday 2018 gift books, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and San Antonio Express-News “Now recipes from the cafe and from black home and professional cooks, mostly traditional fare, have been collected in a cookbook. Keepers like mixed greens with baby turnips, biscuits, a somewhat-upmarket pimento cheese, fried croaker, and macaroni and cheese that’s almost as easy as a packaged mix, are interspersed with history and sidebars about ingredients like okra, rice and peanuts.” —New York Times ”More than just a collection of recipes, Sweet Home Café Cookbook is a fascinating, thoughtful look at African American foodways, and how American food wouldn’t be nearly as delicious and complex without the many contributions of African American cooks.” —Southern Living ”A love letter to African-American history, culture, and cuisine” —DCist ”The recipes will open a cook’s eyes to the diversity and richness of African-American cuisine.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ”Part of the phenomenal success and overflowing crowds at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History has been the museum's Sweet Home Café, a venue for visitors from all backgrounds to share food together. The restaurant’s menu includes all sorts of tasty dishes that connect both directly and indirectly with African-American culinary history. Expected soul food standards such as collards and potlikker, fried chicken, and sweet potato pie appear in this beautifully illustrated cookbook, and there are also supplemental ideas from other new world African traditions such as Jamaica’s curried goat, Trinidad’s Afro-Indian Trini doubles, and Guyanese oxtail pepper pot. African-American dishes born outside Dixie include New York City restaurateur Thomas Downing’s celebrated oyster pan roast and frontier cowboys

Package Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.8 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English