Thursday, January 15, 2009

Help My Apartment Has a Dining Room Cookbook or Food Culture in Sub Saharan Africa

Help! My Apartment Has a Dining Room Cookbook: How to Have People over Without Stressing Out

Author: Kevin Mills

"When I'm cooking for friends, I tend toward Very Easy recipes. It's just like when I read a collection of short stories -- I'll always read the shortest ones first." -- Kevin Mills



Book review: Flavorful India or Ethical Vegetarianism

Food Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa (Food Culture around the World Series)

Author: Fran Osseo Asar

East African, notably, Ethiopian, cuisine is perhaps the most well-known in the States. This volume illuminates West, southern, and Central African cuisine as well to give students and other readers a solid understanding of how the diverse African peoples grow, cook, and eat food and how they celebrate special occasions and ceremonies with special foods. Readers will also learn about African history, religions, and ways of life plus how African and American foodways are related. For example, cooking techniques such as deep frying and ingredients such as peanuts, chili peppers, okra, watermelon, and even cola were introduced to the United States by sub-Sahara Africans who were brought as slaves.



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