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Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine

By : James C. McCann

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U.S. and World Winner in the Best African Cuisine Book category, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, 2010Africa?s art of cooking is a key part of its history. All too often Africa is associated with famine, but in Stirring the Pot, James C. McCann describes how the ingredients, the practices, and the varied tastes of African cuisine comprise a body of historically gendered knowledge practiced and perfected in households across diverse human and ecological landscape. McCann reveals how tastes and culinary practices are integral to the understanding of history and more generally to the new literature on food as social history.Stirring the Pot offers a chronology of African cuisine beginning in the sixteenth century and continuing from Africa?s original edible endowments to its globalization. McCann traces cooks? use of new crops, spices, and tastes, including New World imports like maize, hot peppers, cassava, potatoes, tomatoes, and peanuts, as well as plantain, sugarcane, spices, Asian

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Author : James C. McCann

Pages : 240 pages

Publisher : Ohio University Press

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ISBN-10 : 0896802728

ISBN-13 : 9780896802728

 
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