Books

There are many plants on Amara's farm. Today is the day she looks for her pumpkins.

There is a rich, beautiful, complex, and diverse narrative being told by African Americans and other persons of color in the floral marketplace lon...

"A grandmother passes down her love and respect for nature to her young grandson while they have fun working together in her garden"--

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in ...

"An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today"--

Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Thei...

The "chef and television celebrity takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a fresh ... look at America's favorite comfort cuisine and tra...

In this stark depiction of slaves and their utter alienation from the most basic norms of everyday life, ' Smallwood simultaneously delivers a luci...

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

Twelve-year old Black girl Charley, who dreams of becoming the first professional female pitcher, must navigate adolescence during the turbulent se...

"Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America's most resonant, evocative, and significant cookbooks ever, including the now classic The Taste of Co...

A Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award One of The Atlantic's 10 Best Books ...

This joyful coming together of two extraordinary cooks delivers 225 recipes and reflections on Southern food. Interwoven throughout are wonderful s...

From New York Times Bestselling author Kwame Alexander comes the first book in a searing, breathtaking trilogy that tells the story of a boy, a vil...

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an...

Showcasing one of the world's largest private collections of African American cookbooks, ranging from rare nineteenth-century texts to modern class...

"The very first cookbook to celebrate Juneteenth, from food writer and cookbook author Nicole A. Taylor--who draws on her decade of experiences obs...

A love-letter to the unexpected delights (and occasional despair) of so-called "first-hand food"--meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from th...

The commemorative 30th-anniversary edition of "The Taste of Country Cooking," a great American classic on Southern food, includes an Introduction f...

"Edna loved to cook. Growing up on a farm in Freetown, Virginia, she learned the value of fresh, local, seasonal food from her Mama Daisy, as well ...

A combination dictionary and annotated discography, videography and bibliography, this sourcebook brings together listings of materials on the Rast...

Deliciously and colorfully-told story of Edna Ferber, an award-winning and ahead-of-her time African-American chef whose farming roots led her to c...

A love-letter to the unexpected delights (and occasional despair) of so-called "first-hand food"--meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from th...

Growing up sensitive and slightly awkward in a race-conscious space, Guy decided early on that good food is the most powerful way to connect, under...