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Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island

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Gullah Geechee cuisine is a prominent, yet too-often unsung, part of Southern food culture. Meggett's cookbook is one of the first major and comprehensive books on the subject and will fill a void in the history of American cookbooks. Stunning photography around the food, people and landscapes of Edisto Island will leave you completely charmed by its culture and bold flavors.

A New York Times bestseller and NPR Best Book of the Year, this is the first major Gullah Geechee cookbook. Emily Meggett, the matriarch of Edisto Island, shares her recipes and the history of an essential American community.

Emily Meggett was a celebrated Gullah Geechee chef and community leader from Edisto Island, South Carolina. Her rich culinary heritage shines through this beautiful cookbook, published shortly before her passing in her ninetieth year.

Her recipes and stories have prese...

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