A child describes the family events, like making apple butter and having relatives visit, that center around Momma's kitchen.

A volume of deeply personal comfort food recipes by the legally blind Master Chef champion offers insight into how the loss of her sight compelled her to learn to cook by sense, drawing on her experiences with both Vietnamese and American culinary cultures to share advice on how to produce professional results in a home kitchen.

Navigating the authenticity and nuances of Chinese cuisine, the author, a Shanghainese who has lived in the Europe for a decade now and the wife of an Italian chef, presents dishes from her mom's magical kitchen. From the cure-all nourishing soups, versatile cooking methods, the relentless pursue of seasonality and craftsmanship, these recipes are homey yet manage to retain finesse, tradition and philosophy of good food and they are all peppered with the author's personal recollection of family and her much-loved hometown. Personal, emotional and absolutely delicious.

Assesses the complex interrelationships between food, race, and gender in America, with special attention paid to the famous figure of Aunt Jemima and the role played by soul food in the post-Civil War period, up through the civil rights movement and the present day. Original.

What’s Cooking, Mom? offers original and inventive narratives, including auto-ethno- graphic discussions of representations, discourses and practices about and by mothers regarding food and families. These narratives discuss the multiple strategies through which mothers manage feeding themselves and others, and how these are shaped by international and regional food politics, by global and local food cultures and by their own ethical values and preference, as well as by those of the ones they feed.

When my mama receives an angry visit from Nat Mixon, she learns some startling news. Nat's mother and Mama's neighbor, spiteful recluse Hannah Mixon, has just died--and left a large parcel of land to Mama! Nat is convinced Mama stole his inheritance, and to save her reputation, Mama's determined to find out why Hannah named her in her will. And when it turns out Hannah was murdered, Mama needs to find more answers. With the help of three notorious local gossips--and me--Mama uncovers a long, bloody history of greed and family betrayal connected to the land Mama's inherited. And unless she discovers the truth about this plot of land, it may become her burial plot....

“Vibrant, mouthwatering, made-from-scratch Lebanese dishes” from the host of PBS’s Cooking with Julie Taboulie and Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen (Salma Abdelnour, author of Jasmine and Fire). Since she was six years old, Julie Ann Sageer (nicknamed Julie Taboulie by her close-knit family) has had a passion for cooking the meals of her Lebanese heritage. Just like in her Emmy-nominated cooking show Cooking with Julie Taboulie, each of her recipes comes with hands-on instructions, tips, and tricks for making homemade Middle Eastern dishes using heaps of fresh, seasonal ingredients. Here you’ll find dishes that range from classics like falafel, shawarma, and (of course) taboulie, to warming Bazilla—a stew of tomato, green pea, and lamb—to honey and rosewater-infused desserts. In these 125 recipes, you’ll learn how easy it is to make such Lebanese staples as fresh labneh (strained yogurt) and how to put together your own delicious, multi-purpose spice mixes. In addition to the delicious meat and chicken dishes, Lebanese cuisine offers a wide variety of vegetarian, pescatarian, vegan, and gluten-free dishes, usually with no substitutions whatsoever! Every chapter includes a multitude of dishes for eaters of all kinds and preferences, from meat-lovers to veggie-heads and everything in between. “Sageer so loved her mother’s lemony tabbouleh salad as a child in upstate New York that she earned the nickname ‘Julie Taboulie’ . . . She evokes that memory and many others in this collection of recipes for Lebanese foods, from familiar hummus (presented with a handful of variations) to surprises such as panfried patties made with chickpeas, potatoes, and bulgur; a yogurt soup with lamb dumplings; and pickled baby eggplant stuffed with peppers.” —Publishers Weekly