{"product_id":"if-i-can-cookyou-know-god-can-isbn-9780807021446","title":"If I Can Cook\/You Know God Can","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn expanded edition of a celebrated book that travels throughout the African diaspora to savor the timeless joy of black cuisine and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA hidden gem by the author of \u003ci\u003eFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide\/When the Rainbow Is Enuf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSome Sing, Some Cry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSassafrass\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCypress \u0026amp; Indigo\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBetsey Brown\u003c\/i\u003e, a delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a food of life that reflects the spirit and history of a people. This edition, with delectable illustrations, features additional recipes—including two vegan dishes—that connect the culinary past to the present and welcomes a new generation of readers. With recipes such as “Cousin Eddie’s Shark with Breadfruit” and “Collard Greens to Bring You Money,” Shange instructs us in the nuances of a cuisine born on the slave ships of the Middle Passage, spiced by the jazz of Duke Ellington, and shared by generations across the African diaspora. Rich with personal memories and historical insight, \u003ci\u003eIf I Can Cook\/You Know God Can\u003c\/i\u003e is a timeless story of the migration of a people and the cuisine that marks their living legacy and celebration of taste.RECIPES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD\u003cbr\u003eby Vertamae Grosvenor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAUTHOR’S NOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eLearning to Be Hungry \/ Holdin’ On Together\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003eWhat’d You People Call That?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 2\u003cbr\u003eWhat We Don’t Say in Public\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3\u003cbr\u003eAll It Took Was a Road \/ Surprises of Urban Renewal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 4\u003cbr\u003eBirthday in Brixton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 5\u003cbr\u003eToo Many Fish in the Sea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 6\u003cbr\u003eBrazil: More African Than Africans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 7\u003cbr\u003eWhat Is It We Really Harvestin’ Here?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 8\u003cbr\u003eWestward Ho! Anywhere Must Be Better’n Here!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 9\u003cbr\u003eBetter Late Than Never\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 10\u003cbr\u003eIs That Why the Duke Had a Train of His Own?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 11\u003cbr\u003eAnd What Did You Serve? Oh, No, You Did Not!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 12\u003cbr\u003eVirtual Realities, Real People, Real Foods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpilogue 2018\u003c\/i\u003e: Savannah and Friends’ Prize-Winning Recipes\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCredits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e“This book is the first one I recommend to all cooks to understand the soul of our food. . . . It’s as indispensable as hot sauce.”\u003cbr\u003e—Michael W. Twitty, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A rich, dense gumbo of food memories, history, recipes, and the special kind of magic that only Shange can create . . . I loved it the first time around; in this new version, it, like the rainbow, is more than enuf.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jessica B. Harris, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Soul Looks Back: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHigh on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Listen. To sister Shange’s rainbow recipes of light and love. Listen. To the stirring of her pots and pans with food that fuels our movements and memories. Can’t wait for her to cook me up some of her magic so we can eat and laugh and be. Stay human.”\u003cbr\u003e—Sonia Sanchez, poet and activist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ntozake Shange has always been a salve. Her exploration of food as a conversation about ancestral logic, as story, as medicine, as road map, as celebration, and as reclamation is delicious.”\u003cbr\u003e—Dominique Christina, author of \u003ci\u003eAnarcha Speaks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An epic work of memoir, archive, cookbook, diasporic history, and culinary ethnography—this book is simply a remarkable gift.”\u003cbr\u003e—Morgan Parker, author of \u003ci\u003eThere Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for the first edition:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Shange stirs and simmers the soul and moves the reader\/eater\/cook to rethink every morsel of Pan–African history, personal celebration, and global pain that enters our lives when we gather around her magical hearth to laugh, to cry—but most indispensably—to eat.”\u003cbr\u003e—Edwidge Danticat, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Farming of Bones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Infused with a down-home feel and vernacular rhythms . . . this slim, lively book stimulates and elucidates, and is well worth chewing on.”\u003cbr\u003e—Luis H. Francia, \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This culinary memoir . . . is as valuable for its inspirational and factual nuggets as it is for its unusual recipes . . . . Soul-nourishing.”\u003cbr\u003e—Carmela Ciuraru, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A captivating collection of African-American food memories, meditations and recipes.”\u003cbr\u003e—Kathy Martin, \u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Shange achieves . . . revolutionary splendor. She wraps history and legend and recipes and folklore around one big roti . . . makes a gumbo out of memories and laughter and recipes and black vernacular . . . throws spicy metaphors into recipes that have traveled from Africa and Brazil and the Caribbean and Brixton, England.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Visions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fervent, richly impassioned chronicle of African American experience.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eNtozake Shange\u003c\/b\u003e (1948–2018), poet, novelist, playwright, and performer, wrote the Broadway–produced and Obie Award–winning \u003ci\u003eFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide\/When the Rainbow Is Enuf\u003c\/i\u003e. She also wrote numerous works of fiction, including \u003ci\u003eSassafras\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCypress \u0026amp; Indigo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBetsey Brown\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLiliane\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304859619557,"sku":"NP9780807021446","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807021446.jpg?v=1767729771","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/if-i-can-cookyou-know-god-can-isbn-9780807021446","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}