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title: "If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes (Celebrating Black Women Writers)"
brand: "ntozake shange"
price: "134 zł"
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# If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes (Celebrating Black Women Writers)

**Brand:** ntozake shange
**Price:** 134 zł
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- **What is this?** If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes (Celebrating Black Women Writers) by ntozake shange
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			        		&#x201C;This book is the first one I recommend to all cooks to understand the soul of our food. . . . It&#x2019;s as indispensable as hot sauce.&#x201D;&#x2014;Michael W. Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South&#x201C;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.&#x201D;&#x2014;Jessica B. Harris, author of My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir and High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America&#x201C;Listen. To sister Shange&#x2019;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&#x2019;t wait for her to cook me up some of her magic so we can eat and laugh and be. Stay human.&#x201D;&#x2014;Sonia Sanchez, poet and activist&#x201C;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.&#x201D;&#x2014;Dominique Christina, author of Anarcha Speaks&#x201C;An epic work of memoir, archive, cookbook, diasporic history, and culinary ethnography&#x2014;this book is simply a remarkable gift.&#x201D;&#x2014;Morgan Parker, author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonc&#xE9;Praise for the first edition:&#x201C;Shange stirs and simmers the soul and moves the reader/eater/cook to rethink every morsel of Pan&#x2013;African history, personal celebration, and global pain that enters our lives when we gather around her magical hearth to laugh, to cry&#x2014;but most indispensably&#x2014;to eat.&#x201D;&#x2014;Edwidge Danticat, author of The Farming of Bones&#x201C;Infused with a down-home feel and vernacular rhythms . . . this slim, lively book stimulates and elucidates, and is well worth chewing on.&#x201D;&#x2014;Luis H. Francia, The Village Voice&#x201C;This culinary memoir . . . is as valuable for its inspirational and factual nuggets as it is for its unusual recipes . . . . Soul-nourishing.&#x201D;&#x2014;Carmela Ciuraru, Entertainment Weekly&#x201C;A captivating collection of African-American food memories, meditations and recipes.&#x201D;&#x2014;Kathy Martin, Miami Herald&#x201C;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.&#x201D;&#x2014;American Visions&#x201C;A fervent, richly impassioned chronicle of African American experience.&#x201D;&#x2014;Booklist
						    	
					    	
						
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        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        		
	        		
						
			        		Ntozake Shange (1948&#x2013;2018), poet, novelist, playwright, and performer, wrote the Broadway&#x2013;produced and Obie Award&#x2013;winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. She also wrote numerous works of fiction, including Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo, Betsey Brown, and Liliane.
						    	
					    	
						
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