Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine by McCann, James C.
Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine by McCann, James C.

Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine

Africa's art of cooking is a key part of its history. All too often Africa is associated...
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Author: James C. McCann
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Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine by McCann, James C.

Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine

$100.55
Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine by McCann, James C.

Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine

$100.55
Author: James C. McCann
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Africa's art of cooking is a key part of its history. All too often Africa is associated with famine, but in Stirring the Pot, James C. McCann describes how the ingredients, the practices, and the varied tastes of African cuisine comprise a body of historically gendered knowledge practiced and perfected in households across diverse human and ecological landscape. McCann reveals how tastes and culinary practices are integral to the understanding of history and more generally to the new literature on food as social history.

Stirring the Pot offers a chronology of African cuisine beginning in the sixteenth century and continuing from Africa's original edible endowments to its globalization. McCann traces cooks' use of new crops, spices, and tastes, including New World imports like maize, hot peppers, cassava, potatoes, tomatoes, and peanuts, as well as plantain, sugarcane, spices, Asian rice, and other ingredients from the Indian Ocean world. He analyzes recipes, not as fixed ahistorical documents, but as lively and living records of historical change in women's knowledge and farmers' experiments. A final chapter describes in sensuous detail the direct connections of African cooking to New Orleans jambalaya, Cuban rice and beans, and the cooking of African Americans' "soul food."

Stirring the Pot breaks new ground and makes clear the relationship between food and the culture, history, and national identity of Africans.



Author: James C. McCann
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 02/01/2010
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780896802728


Award: Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (USA Only) - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 12/11/2009 pg. 21
Library Journal 02/01/2010 pg. 86
Choice 09/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 86

About the Author
James C. McCann is a professor of history and chair of the Department of Archaeology at Boston University. He is winner of a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2014 Distinguished Scholar of the American Society of Environmental History.
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