Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family

Description

A mother-daughter duo reclaims and redefines soul food by mining the traditions of four generations of black women and creating 80 healthy recipes to help everyone live longer and stronger.
In May 2012 bestselling author Alice Randall penned an op-ed in the “New York Times” titled “Black Women and Fat ” chronicling her quest to be “the last fat black woman” in her family. She turned to her daughter Caroline Randall Williams for help.

Together they overhauled the way they cook and eat translating recipes and traditions handed down by generations of black women into easy affordable and healthful–yet still indulgent–dishes such as
Peanut Chicken Stew
Red Bean and Brown Rice Creole Salad
Fiery Green Beans
and Sinless Sweet Potato Pie.
“Soul Food Love” relates the authors’ fascinating family history (which mirrors that of much of black America in the twentieth century) explores the often fraught relationship African-American women have had with food and forges a powerful new way forward that honors their cultural and culinary heritage. This is what the strong black kitchen looks like in the twenty-first century.

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