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Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
Contributor(s): Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae (Author)

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ISBN: 0820337390     ISBN-13: 9780820337395
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Cooking | Regional & Ethnic - Soul Food
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
Dewey: 641.592
LCCN: 2010027199
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (0.70 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Features: Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:

Vibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term "soul food" gained common use. While critics were quick to categorize her as a proponent of soul food, Smart-Grosvenor wanted to keep the discussion of her cookbook/memoir focused on its message of food as a source of pride and validation of black womanhood and black "consciousness raising."

In 1959, at the age of nineteen, Smart-Grosvenor sailed to Europe, "where the bohemians lived and let live." Among the cosmopolites of radical Paris, the Gullah girl from the South Carolina low country quickly realized that the most universal lingua franca is a well-cooked meal. As she recounts a cool cat's nine lives as chanter, dancer, costume designer, and member of the Sun Ra Solar-Myth Arkestra, Smart-Grosvenor introduces us to a rich cast of characters. We meet Estella Smart, Vertamae's grandmother and connoisseur of mountain oysters; Uncle Costen, who lived to be 112 and knew how to make Harriet Tubman Ragout; and Archie Shepp, responsible for Collard Greens la Shepp, to name a few. She also tells us how poundcake got her a marriage proposal (she didn't accept) and how she perfected omelettes in Paris, enchiladas in New Mexico, biscuits in Mississippi, and feijoida in Brazil. "When I cook, I never measure or weigh anything," writes Smart-Grosvenor. "I cook by vibration."

This edition features a foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson placing the book in historical context and discussing Smart-Grosvenor's approach to food and culture. A new preface by the author details how she came to write Vibration Cooking.


Contributor Bio(s): Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae: - VERTAMAE SMART-GROSVENOR (1937-2016) was a poet, actress, culinary anthropologist, and writer. She is the author of Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap, Vertamae Cooks in the Americas' Family Kitchen, and Vertamae Cooks Again: More Recipes from the Americas' Family Kitchen. She has served as a correspondent and host for National Public Radio and written for the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Washington Post, Life, Ebony, and Essence.
 
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