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Atlas of African-American history
Call Number: E185 .C55 2001 (Howe 1st Floor Reference)

Books

African American food culture
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Between Harlem and Heaven : Afro-Asian-American cooking for big nights, weeknights, & every day
Call Number: TX715.2.A47 J64 2018 (Howe 3rd Floor)
Black hunger : food and the politics of U.S. identity
Call Number: E185.86 .W58 1999 (Howe 2nd Floor)
Bound to the fire : how Virginia's enslaved cooks helped invent American cuisine
Call Number: eBook
The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South
Call Number: E185.89.F66 T95 2017 (Howe 2nd Floor)
Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama
Call Number: E185.89.F66 D48 2015 (Howe 2nd Floor)
Recipes for respect : African American meals and meaning
Call Number: E185.89.F66 Z34 2019 (Howe 2nd Floor)
Vibration cooking, or, the travel notes of a Geechee girl
Call Number: TX715 .S638 2011 (Howe 3rd Floor)
What the slaves ate : recollections of African American foods and foodways from the slave narratives
Call Number: E443 .C73 2009 (Howe 2nd Floor)

Recipes and Cookbooks

Good things to eat, as suggested by Rufus: a collection of practical recipes for preparing meats, game, fowl, fish, puddings, pastries, etc.
Call Number: eBook
First cookbook by an African American chef from 1911
Heart Healthy Home Cooking African American Style
Call Number: eBook
The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks
Call Number: QUARTO TX715.2.A47 T57 2015 (Howe 3rd Floor)
New farms for new Americans cookbook : a collection of unique recipes shared by members of Vermont's African community
Call Number: TX725.A3 N49 2009 (Billings)
The Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis
Call Number: TX715 .L6684 (Howe 3rd Floor)
The Welcome Table : African-American Heritage Cooking
Call Number: TX715 .H31443 1995 (Howe 3rd Floor)
What Mrs. Fisher knows about old southern cooking : soups, pickles, preserves, etc. : in facsimile with historical notes
Call Number: TX715.2.S68 F535 1995 (Howe 3rd Floor)
Originally published in 1881, considered the first African-American cookbook.

African Americans, Food in Every Country
A history of food and collection of recipes.
Soul Food Online
Soul Food Online was started in 2001 to preserve some of the old recipes and food traditions of soul cooking.

Podcasts

Black Culinary History
Curated list of podcast episodes.

Websites and Organizations

#BlackVegansRock: 100 Black Vegans to Check Out
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps. The Web site is organized around thirteen defining migrations that have formed and transformed African America and the nation.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
Relying on the expertise of distinguished curators and scholars, Digital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global black experience 24/7.

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