Zora Neale Hurston On Florida Food Recipes Remedies Simple Pleasures American Palate Frederick Douglass Opie by Frederick Douglass Opie B00XRVL1LG instant download after payment.

There is enormous variety in American cookery. This book focuses on Florida cooking in Zora Neale Hurston’s early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing. It emphasizes the essentials of cookery in Florida through simple dishes. It considers foods prepared for everyday meals as well as special occasions and looks at what shaped the eating habits of communities in early twentieth-century Florida. It investigates African, American, European and Asian influences in order to understand what they contributed to Florida’s culinary traditions.

This book analyzes barbecuing, basting, smoking, roasting, frying and the use of traditional ingredients such as rice, cornmeal, pork, poultry and fish. It also explores the links beyond Hurston’s native Eatonville, looking at the people, places and cookery throughout Hurston’s literary and ethnographic writings. It studies the cookery of West Florida, Jacksonville and the Everglades.

This book builds on the pioneering work of Jessica Harris, Karen Hess, Howard Paige, Sidney W. Mintz, Arjun Appadurai, Pete Daniels, Andrew Warnes and Mark Kurlansky. Like Warnes’s work, this one delves into Hurston’s writing, offering a fascinating perspective on African cultural survival strategies in the twentieth century and the culinary links between Floridians and blacks in other parts of the Americas. Warnes focuses on Their Eyes Were Watching God and Eatonville, making no comparisons to the cookery in West and Central Africa. This book makes comparison with food history gathered from a number of sources. Warnes’s analysis focuses only on barbecuing and basting. This book’s emphasis is more expansive, analyzing various cooking methods. It also considers Hurston’s discussion of food in Florida in the context of West and Central African culinary history, and it parallels Hurston’s foodways with Pete Daniels’s work on lowdown culture and this author’s work on soul.