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Four Chicago sisters anchor a sharp, sly family story of feminine guile and guilt. At the end of the novel, Marshall attempts to sell the slaves, and Lavinia hatches a plot to intervene. While an altercation is taking place, Mama Mae reveals that Belle is Marshall’s sister, and Marshall lynches Mamma Mae.
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And the recipe for steamed cakes that McClenny’s mother made for her as a child is already a favorite, the matcha cake impossibly soft and just a tad sweet. I imagine the name of the book is a play on McClenny’s popular Buzzfeed Tasty series, “Make it Fancy,” where millions of viewers watch her turn Takis, Costco chicken and candy into gourmet meals. This book is just as creative, and possibly even more fun. When catastrophe strikes, World Central Kitchen is often close behind.
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The novel is told from the first-person perspectives of Belle and Lavinia alternately over 55 chapters, and it addresses the predicaments of women, slaves, and indentured servants in the American South. With vibrant portraits and profiles, Klancy Miller celebrates the legacy of Black women in food, including chefs, activists, documentarians, restaurateurs, writers and more. Miller even uplifts the memories of culinary titans like Lena Chase and Barbara Elaine Smith (B. Smith) with loving tributes that affirm their impact on how we eat food today.
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A handshake later, the couple owned 1635 Woods Drive. On that site, they would construct Case Study House #22, designed by Pierre Koenig, arguably the most famous of all the houses in the famous Case Study program that Arts & Architecture magazine initiated in 1945. For generations of pilgrims, gawkers, architecture students, and midcentury-modern aficionados, it would be known simply as the Stahl House. Danielle Dorsey is the assistant editor and writer of guides for the Food section.
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Locals called it Pecker Point, presumably because it was a prime makeout venue. For the Stahls, it became the blank screen on which they projected their dreams of a life together, a place to build a future, a family, and a house like no other. Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today! Plus, receive recommendations for your next Book Club read.
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Captain Pyke’s trip to Philadelphia to find a husband for Belle proves disastrous; Dory and Campbell die of yellow fever, and Pyke contracts a chronic infection that will eventually kill him. Marshall is sent to boarding school, but returns from time to time to wreak havoc, which includes raping Belle, whom he doesn’t know is his half-sister. After the captain dies, through a convoluted convergence of events, Lavinia marries Marshall and at 17 becomes the mistress of Tall Oaks. At first her savior, Marshall is soon Lavinia’s jailer. Kindly neighboring farmer Will rescues several Tall Oaks slaves, among them Ben and Belle, who, unbeknownst to all, was emancipated by the captain years ago.
Pyke’s wife Martha sinks deeper into laudanum addiction during the captain’s long absences. Brutal, drunken overseer Rankin starves and beats the field slaves. The Pykes’ 11-year-old son Marshall “accidentally” causes his young sister Sally’s death, and Ben is horribly mutilated by Rankin. When Martha, distraught over Sally, ignores her infant son Campbell, Lavinia bonds with the baby, as well as with Sukey, daughter of Campbell’s black wet nurse Dory.
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To that end, the recipes will urge you to the stove soon enough — for Nicole Taylor’s cocoa-orange fish, and Isaiah Martinez’s crab and collard “run down” and Selasie Gotse’s Ghanaian crepe cake. I love that the last entry is Edna Lewis’ fresh peach cobbler with nutmeg sauce, the national anthem of desserts. Many of the characters in this novel come vividly alive.
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Why does Belle’s half-brother believe she is his father’s mistress when everyone else seems to know she is his daughter? Though this novel veers toward melodrama, most of the time I was willing to suspend disbelief and be caught up in the story. Lavinia is in love with the overseer at Tall Oaks, Will Stephens, but she suspects that he is the father of Belle’s son, Jamie, and rejects his marriage proposal.
' When seven-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantation owner, she is absorbed into the life of the kitchen house and becomes part of the family of black slaves whose fates are tied to the plantation. The memoir aspect of “Kitchen Whisperers” is slyer. It reveals a subtle internal tension — a woman who’s spent a lifetime perfecting writers’ copy now figuring out how to weave in her own narrative via the stories of skilled cooks around her. “We were our own best critic,” she writes of contentious editorial meetings.
Sesame-laced Caesar salad, bacon-egg-and-cheese-stuffed scallion pancakes, and bolo bao fried chicken sandwiches hit the table alongside traditional beef noodles, corn soups and stir-fries. Chef-owners Josh Ku and Trigg Brown, with food writer Cathy Erway, intersperse all of these recipes and more with dialogues and musings on Taiwanese (American) identity, history and favorite dishes for a cookbook that’s just as educational as it is fun. And with persimmons now in season, you’d better believe I’m keeping the garlicky persimmon hot sauce — along with pages of their other condiment recipes — in heavy rotation.
Fittingly, the relief organization’s first cookbook is filled with just as much heart as it is continent-crossing recipes. “Simply West African,” by chef Pierre Thiam and Lisa Katayama, is a cookbook that radiates teranga, a word in Wolof, the most widely spoken language in Senegal, that has no direct translation to English. It is, Thiam explains, something akin to joy and love, mixed with community. With “The Everlasting Meal,” cookbook author Tamar Adler solves the existential question of what to do with leftovers. Centered on sustainability — both financial and environmental — her cookbook provides recipes suitable for families as well as singles while encouraging readers to be more mindful of and reduce personal food waste. Alongside gorgeous illustrations by Caitlin Winner, the book features more than 1,500 recipes to assist readers in recycling excess vegetables, fruit, meat and dairy products before they go bad, spanning casual to fancy and representing all levels of expertise.
The bibliography at the end of the book, assembling all of the publications Tipton-Martin used as resources, is a collection of fantastic references. The ‘Saved by the Bell’ icon’s food crawl began with Southern-fried frickles and ended with Michelin chocolate cake. No wonder her new cookbook levels up leftovers.
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