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Grain and fire : a history of baking in the American South
- Title
- Grain and fire : a history of baking in the American South / Rebecca Sharpless.
- Author
- Sharpless, Rebecca
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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Details
- Description
- x, 333 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of Southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems. Rebecca Sharpless here weaves a brilliant chronicle, vast in perspective and entertaining in detail, revealing how three global food traditions-Indigenous American, European, and African-collided with and merged in the economies, cultures, and foodways of the South to create what we know as the Southern baking tradition"--
- Subjects
- Southern States
- Cultural fusion
- Food habits > Social aspects
- Baking
- History
- Manners and customs
- Cooking, American > Southern style
- Southern States > Social life and customs > History
- Cultural fusion > Southern States > History
- Food habits > Social aspects > Southern States > History
- Baking > Southern States > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Meeting of Grain and Fire -- ch. 1 Acorn Bread: Grinding Only Looks Easy -- ch. 2 Rosquetes de Azucar: America, Europe, Africa -- ch. 3 Plumb Cakes: Wheat and Corn, Like It or Not -- ch. 4 Hoecake: Who Ate What, and Who Decided That -- ch. 5 Raison Cake: The Eye Was Well Deceived, but to the Taste It Was Rather Sour -- ch. 6 White Mountain Cake: Poverty and Opulence -- ch. 7 Jelly Roll: The Modernizing South -- ch. 8 Chiffon Pie: Civil Rights and Sameness -- Pastel de Tres Leches: The Cutting Edge of Southern Baking.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-712
- ISBN
- 9781469668369
- 146966836X
- LCCN
- 2021052597
- OCLC
- 1266896405
- Author
- Sharpless, Rebecca, author. Author
- Title
- Grain and fire : a history of baking in the American South / Rebecca Sharpless.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-712