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Author:

Sharpless, Rebecca, author.

Title:

Grain and fire : a history of baking in the American South / Rebecca Sharpless.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

x, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Baking--Southern States--History.
Cooking, American--Southern style.
Food habits--History.--Southern States--History.
Cultural fusion--Southern States--History.
Southern States--History.--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-314) and index.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

146966836X
9781469668369

LCCN:

2021052597

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)