Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night

Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night

by Sallie Ann Robinson
Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night

Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night

by Sallie Ann Robinson

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Overview

Sallie Ann Robinson was born and reared on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for their Gullah culture. Although technology and development were slow in coming to Daufuskie, the island is now changing rapidly. With this book, Robinson highlights some of her favorite memories and delicious recipes from life on Daufuskie, where the islanders traditionally ate what they grew in the soil, caught in the river, and hunted in the woods.

The unique food traditions of Gullah culture contain a blend of African, European, and Native American influences. Reflecting the rhythm of a day in the kitchen, from breakfast to dinner (and anywhere in between), this cookbook collects seventy-five recipes for easy-to-prepare, robustly flavored dishes. Robinson also includes twenty-five folk remedies, demonstrating how in the Gullah culture, in the not-so-distant past, food and medicine were closely linked and the sea and the land provided what islanders needed to survive. In her spirited introduction and chapter openings, Robinson describes how cooking the Gullah way has enriched her life, from her childhood on the island to her adulthood on the nearby mainland.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807858431
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/01/2007
Edition description: 1
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 523,643
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Sallie Ann Robinson is author of Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way. She now makes her home in Savannah, Georgia.

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From the Publisher

Sallie Ann Robinson cooks slow and local—and from the heart.—Damon Lee Fowler, Garden & Gun



Echoes the same reverent note as her much-praised first [book].—Charleston



Time honored recipes are generally quick and straightforward, while still full of the flavor of local ingredients.—Staten Island Advance



Cooking the Gullah Way is a last glimpse of a fading culture.—Gastronomica



[Robinson] combines a memoir of growing up with her nine siblings [on Daufuskie Island] and down-to-earth recipes to cover each meal of the day. Most of her remembrances involve chores and the fertile life of the island, though she includes a fine chapter on 'Folk Beliefs and Home Remedies.'. . . As for the recipes, each could be filed under one or more of the three S's: simple, soul food or seafood.—Publishers Weekly



Cooking the Gullah Way follows the rhythm of a typical day on Daufuskie Island. . . . The book immerses the reader in this culture through Robinson's personal stories and family recipes.—Raleigh News & Observer



Through her books, [Robinson] helps keep culture alive. The unique organization of her book . . . impresses that Gullah is an entire way of life, not just a way to cook. . . . Spend some time with [Robinson] yourself . . . and you'll feel marvelously satisfied in both your belly and your heart.—Ann Arbor News



Along with down-home recipes ranging from Momma's Cracking Muffins to Country Fried Fish with Grits, Robinson includes more reminiscences and anecdotes about her extended family as well as a chapter on Gullah folk beliefs and home remedies of all sorts.—Library Journal



From their down-home names to their rich flavors, the recipes allow us all to savor Robinson's taste of Gullah culture and to recreate her world in our own.—Jessica B. Harris, from the Foreword



Ties food and place together in an identity that is designed to cultivate an inclusive and progressive future.—Gastronomica

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