Jennifer Jensen Wallach: 3 books
Every Nation Has Its Dish
Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Jennifer Jensen Wallach's nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century challenges traditional narratives of "soul food" as a singular style of historical African American cuisine. Wallach investigates the experiences and diverse convictions of several generations of African American...
How America Eats
A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
In How America Eats, Food historian Jennifer Wallach examines how Americans have produced food, cooked, and filled their stomachs from the colonial era to the present. Due to the complex history of conquest, enslavement, and immigration, the United States has never developed a singular cohesive culinary...
Getting What We Need Ourselves
How Food Has Shaped African American Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Beginning with an examination of West African food traditions during the era of the transatlantic slave trade and ending with a discussion of black vegan activism in the twenty-first century, Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life tells a multi-faceted food story...