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The Bookshelf: Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies

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April 18, 2011
Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies

Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies… Diaspora is dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the history, culture, social structure, politics, and economics of both the traditional diasporas – Armenian, Greek, and Jewish – and the new transnational dispersions which in the past four decades have come to be identified as ‘diasporas.’ These encompass groups...
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The Bookshelf: The Food, Folklore, and Art of Lowcountry Cooking

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September 18, 2010
The Bookshelf: The Food, Folklore, and Art of Lowcountry Cooking

The Food, Folklore, and Art of Lowcountry Cooking: A Celebration of the Foods, History, and Romance Handed Down From England, Africa, The Caribbean, France, Germany, and Scotland (Joseph E. Dabney – Cumberland House/Sourcebooks, Inc., 2010) The book’s subtitle, “A Celebration of the Foods, History, and Romance Handed Down from Africa, The Caribbean, France, Germany,...
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Food for Thought

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January 26, 2009
Food for Thought

  I have been reading Edna Lewis’ classic The Taste of Country Cooking and realizing how perceptions of African American food are painfully limited.  The scope of what this food can be is so limited, this bothers me, because it has also limited the scope of what African Americans seem to think of as African...
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The Roots Cuisine Bookshelf

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January 18, 2009
The Roots Cuisine Bookshelf

Research for a new project I am working on has yielded some interesting results in terms of books.  There are few books dedicated to the topic of the food of the African Diaspora that aren’t cookbooks and even those are few and far between.     I’m planning to write short reviews for this...
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