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Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook by Toni Tipton-Martin
4.0
This tries to hit the sweet spot between being a cookbook and a cultural thinkpiece, and I don't think it hits that spot perfectly.
I came looking for an in-depth cookbook about the changes and adaptations made to African American recipes throughout the years, and I didn't find that reflected through the recipes in this book - the author generally sets out to explain the history of a dish and then ends with one recipe.
To compare and contrast the different traditional vs. modern versions, it seems to me that the reader would have to put in the exact same effort as the author again, which is very disappointing to me.
I came looking for an in-depth cookbook about the changes and adaptations made to African American recipes throughout the years, and I didn't find that reflected through the recipes in this book - the author generally sets out to explain the history of a dish and then ends with one recipe.
To compare and contrast the different traditional vs. modern versions, it seems to me that the reader would have to put in the exact same effort as the author again, which is very disappointing to me.