Thank you all for being here for a decade. I know I’ve been light for a while here but life has been a roller-coaster. I started this blog January 12, 2011. I was inspired by Julie and Julia. I thought if she can do it, I can too! I never really accomplished as much as […]
June 14-June 20 help books by Black authors take over the bestseller lists!
At the end of the prologue to my book The Cooking Gene (HarperCollins Amistad imprint, 2017/2018) I reflected on whether or not the Southern table could give us some insight into America’s second original sin–the enslavement of Africans and the consequences that resulted: “The lazy, laughing South / With blood on its mouth /And I, […]
Warning. This isnt my usual style of writing, it is full of cuss words and frustration and darkness and struggle in the attempt to recover and heal. Read at your own discretion. This is my reaction to the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery may they rest in peace and power. A […]
The Cooking Gene made it to the Best Food Books of All Time!! I’m happy to announce that my book, “The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South”, made it to BookAuthority’s Best Food Books of All Time: https://bookauthority.org/books/best-food-books?t=u8kzpl&s=award&book=0062379291 BookAuthority collects and ranks the best books in the world, […]
I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited I can’t stand it!!!! I just pre-ordered the cookbook on Amazonsmile.com and it will be out in November!!!! HALLELUJAH!!!!