Contents
Foreword
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Archives
Chapter 1. Foodways and Resistance
Chapter 2. Native American Contributions to African American Foodways
Chapter 3. Black Women’s Food Writing and the Archive of Black Women’s History
Chapter 4. A Date with a Dish
Chapter 5. What’s the Difference between Soul Food and Southern Cooking?
Part II: Representations
Chapter 6. Creole Cuisine as Culinary Border Culture
Chapter 7. Feast of the Mau Mau
Chapter 8. The Sassy Black Cook and the Return of the Magical Negress
Chapter 9. Mighty Matriarchs Kill It with a Skillet
Chapter 10. Looking through Prism Optics
Part III: Politics
Chapter 11. Theft, Food Labor, and Culinary Insurrection in the Virginia Plantation Yard
Chapter 12. Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop
Chapter 13. Domestic Restaurants, Foreign Tongues
Chapter 14. Freedom’s Farms
Chapter 15. After Forty Acres
Afterword
Notes
Contributors
Index