If I Can Cook/You Know God Can

African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes

Ebook
On sale Jan 29, 2019 | 140 Pages | 978-0-8070-2145-3
New edition available. Search ISBN 9780807021446.


 Acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange offers this delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a food of life that reflects the spirit and history of a people. With recipes such as "Cousin Eddie's Shark with Breadfruit" and "Collard Greens to Bring You Money," Shange instructs us in the nuances of a cuisine born on the slave ships of the Middle Passage, spiced by the jazz of Duke Ellington, and shared by all members of the African Diaspora. Rich with personal memories and historical insight, If I Can Cook/You Know God Can is a vivid story of the migration of a people, and the cuisine that marks their living legacy and celebration of taste.
RECIPES

FOREWORD
by Vertamae Grosvenor

AUTHOR’S NOTE

INTRODUCTION
Learning to Be Hungry / Holdin’ On Together

CHAPTER 1
What’d You People Call That?

CHAPTER 2
What We Don’t Say in Public

CHAPTER 3
All It Took Was a Road / Surprises of Urban Renewal

CHAPTER 4
Birthday in Brixton

CHAPTER 5
Too Many Fish in the Sea

CHAPTER 6
Brazil: More African Than Africans

CHAPTER 7
What Is It We Really Harvestin’ Here?

CHAPTER 8
Westward Ho! Anywhere Must Be Better’n Here!

CHAPTER 9
Better Late Than Never

CHAPTER 10
Is That Why the Duke Had a Train of His Own?

CHAPTER 11
And What Did You Serve? Oh, No, You Did Not!

CHAPTER 12
Virtual Realities, Real People, Real Foods

Epilogue
Epilogue 2018: Savannah and Friends’ Prize-Winning Recipes
Notes
Credits
Acknowledgments
Ntozake Shange (1948–2018), poet, novelist, playwright, and performer, wrote the Broadway–produced and Obie Award–winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. She also wrote numerous works of fiction, including Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo, Betsey Brown, and Liliane.

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New edition available. Search ISBN 9780807021446.


 Acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange offers this delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a food of life that reflects the spirit and history of a people. With recipes such as "Cousin Eddie's Shark with Breadfruit" and "Collard Greens to Bring You Money," Shange instructs us in the nuances of a cuisine born on the slave ships of the Middle Passage, spiced by the jazz of Duke Ellington, and shared by all members of the African Diaspora. Rich with personal memories and historical insight, If I Can Cook/You Know God Can is a vivid story of the migration of a people, and the cuisine that marks their living legacy and celebration of taste.

Table of Contents

RECIPES

FOREWORD
by Vertamae Grosvenor

AUTHOR’S NOTE

INTRODUCTION
Learning to Be Hungry / Holdin’ On Together

CHAPTER 1
What’d You People Call That?

CHAPTER 2
What We Don’t Say in Public

CHAPTER 3
All It Took Was a Road / Surprises of Urban Renewal

CHAPTER 4
Birthday in Brixton

CHAPTER 5
Too Many Fish in the Sea

CHAPTER 6
Brazil: More African Than Africans

CHAPTER 7
What Is It We Really Harvestin’ Here?

CHAPTER 8
Westward Ho! Anywhere Must Be Better’n Here!

CHAPTER 9
Better Late Than Never

CHAPTER 10
Is That Why the Duke Had a Train of His Own?

CHAPTER 11
And What Did You Serve? Oh, No, You Did Not!

CHAPTER 12
Virtual Realities, Real People, Real Foods

Epilogue
Epilogue 2018: Savannah and Friends’ Prize-Winning Recipes
Notes
Credits
Acknowledgments

Author

Ntozake Shange (1948–2018), poet, novelist, playwright, and performer, wrote the Broadway–produced and Obie Award–winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. She also wrote numerous works of fiction, including Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo, Betsey Brown, and Liliane.

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