A review by alciewms
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This treasure trove of stories, memories, and recipes tugs at my heart and sates my soul. Wilkinson takes us along as she remembers and honors the foodways of her ancestors in Affrilachiia, and I fall in love with her family. She examines her relationship with the kitchen and how her lineage brought her to the present, and I chuckle and weep in both gratitude and sadness for what both our childhoods were and were not. This is an incredibly generous collection from a truly gifted writer (and a fellow fan of plantains at the breakfast table!).