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More than a memoir of friendship and first love My Soul Looks Back is a carefully crafted, intimately understood homage to a bygone era and the people that made it so remarkable. The book is framed by Harris’ relationship with Sam Floyd, a fellow professor at Queens College, who introduced her to Baldwin. Harris describes her role as theater critic for the New York Amsterdam News and editor at then burgeoning Essence magazine star-studded parties in the South of France drinks at Mikell’s, a hip West Side club and the simple joy these extraordinary people took in each other’s company. Harris paints evocative portraits of her illustrious friends: Baldwin as he read aloud an early draft of If Beale Street Could Talk, Angelou cooking in her California kitchen, and Morrison relaxing at Baldwin’s house in Provence. My Soul Looks Back is her paean to that fascinating social circle and the depth of their shared commitment to activism, intellectual engagement, and each other. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan’s West Side to the restaurants of the Village, living out her buoyant youth alongside the great minds of the day-luminaries like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. Harris’ best-selling book.In the technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Chef and writer Stephen Satterfield traces the delicious, moving throughlines from Africa to Texas in this docuseries inspired by Dr. Harris’s High on the Hog fills an important gap in our culinary history.īlack food is American food. The work of a masterful storyteller and an acclaimed scholar, Jessica B. (Publisher) 105 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Harris (Author, Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. Although the story of African cuisine in America begins with slavery, High on the Hog ultimately chronicles a thrilling history of triumph and survival. My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir Audible Audiobook Unabridged Jessica B.
Harris takes the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, tracking the trials that the people and the food have undergone along the way.įrom chitlins and ham hocks to fried chicken and vegan soul, Harris celebrates the delicious and restorative foods of the African American experience and details how each came to form such an important part of African American culture, history, and identity. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. High on the Hog is the culmination of years of her work, and the result is a most engaging history of African American cuisine. “The grande dame of African American cookbooks and winner of the James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award stakes her claim as a culinary historian with a narrative history of African American cuisine.” – Īcclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. The New York Times Bestseller and NetFlix Series!
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