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A review by busboom
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America by Jessica B. Harris
4.0
2 episodes in to the Netflix series based on this book, I couldn't resist picking up the Audible version.
It's a fascinating journey, and it's a good balance of scholarly information in a popular discourse. Harris's narration adds to that, I think, giving it an enjoyable, almost conversational aspect.
I have one quibble: Harris misstates Bobby Kennedy's assassination as occurring in 1967, prior to MLK's assassination in 1968. RFK was assassinated in June 1968, after MLK. Perhaps this has been fixed in subsequent Kindle/ebook editions.
It's a fascinating journey, and it's a good balance of scholarly information in a popular discourse. Harris's narration adds to that, I think, giving it an enjoyable, almost conversational aspect.
I have one quibble: Harris misstates Bobby Kennedy's assassination as occurring in 1967, prior to MLK's assassination in 1968. RFK was assassinated in June 1968, after MLK. Perhaps this has been fixed in subsequent Kindle/ebook editions.