A review by serendipitysbooks
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin

4.0

Jubilee is a fascinating insight into two centuries of African American cooking. It is both a culinary history and a celebration of the cuisine. I liked the way Tipton-Martin placed the food in the wider context of African American history and explained the pedigree of each recipe, how various cooks and chefs prepared it, and how and why she then combined and tweaked those recipes to make them own. Interspersed with these main recipes are some reproduced verbatim from vintage cookbooks which adds a nice historical flavour. As a non-American I hadn’t really thought about African-American cooking before I stumbled across this book, and if pressed on the subject I’m sure I would have resorted to the friend chicken and collard greens/soul food stereotype. I now know that African-American cooking is much more diverse and varied.

And the recipes themselves? The ones I tried were easy to foll