A review by ktrain3900
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson

emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

This may be the loveliest, frankest book I've ever read. Part memoir, part family cookbook, part lyric photo essay, Wilkinson celebrates her Black Appalachian history, her ancestors (especially the grandparents--the grandmother--who raised her), her children and future generations, and most of all the food they share and have shared as an act of love, from enslavement to freedom, from poverty to plenty. To read this is to receive a powerful hug, to curl up in a warm, handmade blanket, and to feel wholly nourished. It's emotional, deeply personal, and beautiful. Even if you're a terrible cook like me, you'll find sustenance and calm in these pages. Pure hygge.