“Spectacular cake creations [that] are positively bursting with beauty, color, flavor, and fun . . . this book will ignite the baking passion within you!” —Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond, #1 New York Times–bestselling author Grandbaby Cakes is the debut cookbook from sensational food writer, Jocelyn Delk Adams. Since founding her popular recipe blog, Grandbaby Cakes, in 2012, Adams has been putting fresh twists on old favorites. She has earned praise from critics and the adoration of bakers both young and old for her easygoing advice, rich photography, and the heartwarming memories she shares of her grandmother, affectionately nicknamed Big Mama, who baked and developed delicious, melt-in-your-mouth desserts. Grandbaby Cakes pairs charming stories of Big Mama’s kitchen with recipes ranging from classic standbys to exciting adventures—helpfully marked by degree of difficulty—that will inspire your own family for years to come. Adams creates sophisticated flavor combinations based on Big Mama’s gorgeous centerpiece cakes, giving each recipe something familiar mixed with something new. Not only will home bakers be able to make staples like yellow cake and icebox cake exactly how their grandmothers did, but they’ll also be preparing impressive innovations, like the Pineapple Upside-Down Hummingbird Pound Cake and the Fig-Brown Sugar Cake. From pound cakes and layer cakes to sheet cakes and “baby” cakes (cupcakes and cakelettes), Grandbaby Cakes delivers fun, hip recipes perfect for any celebration. “[Adams] offers up her greatest hits alongside sweet stories of her family’s generations-old baking traditions.” —People.com “There is a heritage of love and tradition steeped in her recipes . . . A trip down memory lane that ends with delicious treats on your table.” —Carla Hall, TV chef and author of Carla Hall’s Soul Food

2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts

"Whether it's baked pimento cheese or fried pork chops with country gravy, southern-style collard greens or Mama's cornbread dressing, the 200 recipes in this book are all kitchen-tested and family-approved! South your mouth is a celebration of Mandy's irresistible southern recipes, as well as her secrets for turning a so-so recipe into a "so ah-maz-ing!" dish you'll be proud to serve. Her down-to-earth recipes and easy-going southern style will have you cooking and laughing at the same time!"--Provided by publisher.

In the South, a conversation among home cooks can be just about as illuminating as any culinary education. Luckily for Stacey Little, home cooks run in the family. Whether it’s fried chicken or pimento cheese, fruit salad or meatloaf, everybody’s family does it a little differently. The Southern Bite Cookbook is a celebration of those traditions and recipes every Southern family is proud to own. It’s the salads and sandwiches that’s mandatory for every family reunion and the hearty soups that are comforting after a long day. It’s the Sunday Dinner that graces the Easter table every year. If you’re lucky enough to hail from the South, you’ll no doubt find some familiar favorites from your own family recipe archives, along with a whole slew of surprises from southern families a lot like yours. In The Southern Bite Cookbook, Little shares some of his favorite, delicious dishes including: Pecan Chicken Salad Glazed Ham Turnip Green Dip Chicken Corn Chowder Cornbread Salad No matter what’s cooking, Little’s goal is the same: to revel in the culinary tradition all Southerners share. The Southern Bite Cookbook has all of the best recipes that brings people together and the meals our families will cherish for generations to come.

“Twitty makes the case that Blackness and Judaism coexist in beautiful harmony, and this is manifested in the foods and traditions from both cultures that Black Jews incorporate into their daily lives…Twitty wishes to start a conversation where people celebrate their differences and embrace commonalities. By drawing on personal narratives, his own and others’, and exploring different cultures, Twitty’s book offers important insight into the journeys of Black Jews.”—Library Journal “A fascinating, cross-cultural smorgasbord grounded in the deep emotional role food plays in two influential American communities.”—Booklist The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To Twitty, the creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation of migrations and a dialogue of diasporas offering a rich background for inventive recipes and the people who create them. The question that most intrigues him is not just who makes the food, but how the food makes the people. Jews of Color are not outliers, Twitty contends, but significant and meaningful cultural creators in both Black and Jewish civilizations. Koshersoul also explores how food has shaped the journeys of numerous cooks, including Twitty’s own passage to and within Judaism. As intimate, thought-provoking, and profound as The Cooking Gene, this remarkable book teases the senses as it offers sustenance for the soul. Koshersoul includes 48-50 recipes.

A story told: From the streets of one of the toughest places in America to the halls of the Pentagon, and Wall Street, a story of one man's journey to wealth. Along the way the author learned life lessons and powerful principles that took him from rags to riches. A riveting insight into how people like Thomas Edison, Nelson Mandela, Anthony Robins, Bill Gates, P. Diddy, T.D. Jakes, and Oprah Winfrey all have drawn upon Universal Wealth Principles to overcome obstacles taking them to amazing heights of success and unmatched wealth. The author tells how he used these same principles to achieve wealth, and happiness. In less than one year he acquired 46 single family homes. Working with these principles he landed millions of dollars in contracts, partnered with Fortune 100 companies, and founded several businesses. Most importantly, he gives easy steps that you can follow to achieve the same results. The book is an easy read and provides techniques that are simple to learn and provide results - fast! Before reading the book, you're asked to check your stuff at the door. Your age, race, religion, creed, sex, color, and economic status aren't important here. Anyone can use The Principles to take them where they want to go. So can you. It doesn't matter, if you make $1.50 an hour or $1,000,000 plus a year, these principles apply. "The 10 Principles of Wealth for Black Folks and Other People Too!" - Gives time tested techniques on how to make money, save money, invest money, overcome fear, and get what you really want. - Gives two very special gifts that we all possess, yet rarely use. - Shows how success leaves clues. They're all around. Find them, and you unlock the doors to riches andhappiness. - Gives a compelling alternative for change within the minority community or any community. - Takes an insightful look at the debate within the Black Community spearheaded by Bill Cosby over education, personal and community responsibility. - Challenges the prevalent thought within the community to grow up and get an education, and then a good job, and asks is that enough. - Provides clear steps and an action plan to get what you really want and desire. - Challenges you to find your life's purpose. - Shows you how to give great value so that in return you can receive great value. - Shows you how much money you really have left in "Life's Bank." "The 10 Principles of Wealth are simple. You can use them to immediately turn your situation around. If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired because you can't make this month's car payment or your bills are stacking up like Mount Everest, keep reading. People with money have used these rules and techniques virtually throughout time to create wealth, passing it on for generations. You can do the same - not someday - but today." The book goes far beyond, just how to make money. Here's the author's take on: "Reverend Al Sharpton" "Armstrong" On the media On Justice Clarence Thomas "Reverend T. D. Jakes" On people of the cloth On love, faith, and sex On prayer About trying, "Bill Cosby, Johnny Cochran, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Frederick Price, and Aretha Franklin don't try .... Is it luck or just a coincidence that these folks don't try - they just are? Could it be that by either design or accident they've found out why they're here?" On Wynton Marsalis On Magic Johnson and Earl Graves On P.Diddy On building a better place Findout three reasons why people like Denzel Washington, Montel Williams, Bryant Gumble, Mike Wilborn, Judge Glenda Hatchett, Angela Bassett, Tom Joiner, Hank Aaron, Maya Angelou and many others make it to the top. "The 10 Principles of Wealth for Black Folks and Other People Too!" is powerful. It's packed with clear illustrations and examples on how to make money and create wealth. But it's much more than a book about making money, it's a wake-up call to the community and it speaks directly to your soul.

Folk medicine is an important informal and traditional system of social health care support that is still wisely used in many nations including rural regions of the southern United States. This volume provides new insight into the various conditions and structures that help to account for the development and persistence of folk medicine in societies. The authors focus on older, primarily female, black users of folk medicine; the problem of trust in folk and modern doctor-patient relationships; the need for communication and information exchange between folk and modern medical doctors; and a variety of social, cultural, and psychological factors related to drug misuse among the poor, the elderly, rural and uneducated consumers of health services.