Nonfiction about African diasporic foodways. Cookbooks, history writing, and more. Suggestions welcome!
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Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
Judith A. Carney
Vibration Cooking or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen
Jon Gray
Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island
Emily Meggett
Motherland: A Jamaican Cookbook
Melissa Thompson
East Winds: Recipes, History and Tales from the Hidden Caribbean
Riaz Phillips
What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking
Abby Fisher
Saka Saka: South of the Sahara – Adventures in African Cooking
Anto Cocagne
My Everyday Lagos: Nigerian Cooking at Home and in the Diaspora [A Cookbook]
Yewande Komolafe
Zoe's Ghana Kitchen
Zoe Adjonyoh
Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds
Yemisi Aribisala
Tamu: A Journey Through Africa's Plant-Based Cuisine
Jane Nshuti
The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa
Alexander Smalls
Tanya Holland's California Soul: Recipes from a Culinary Journey West
Tanya Holland
Iron Pots & Wooden Spoons: Africa's Gifts to New World Cooking
Jessica B. Harris
In Pursuit of Flavor
Edna Lewis
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.
Ashanté M. Reese
Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness (A Norton Short)
Provisions: The Roots of Caribbean Cooking -- 150 Vegetarian Recipes
Michelle Rousseau
Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution
Frederick Douglass Opie
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
Notes from a Young Black Chef
Kwame Onwuachi
Son of a Southern Chef: Cook with Soul: A Cookbook
Lazarus Lynch
Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro Asian American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day
J.J. Johnson
Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations
Nicole A. Taylor
In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean
Hawa Hassan
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed [A Cookbook]
Bryant Terry
The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks
Toni Tipton-Martin
The Dooky Chase Cookbook
Leah Chase
Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat: The First Cookbook by an African-American Chef (Dover Cookbooks)
Rufus Estes
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