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How to Cook dishes from African-American tradition
In the United States,
there are around 39 million African-Americans,
that is to say Americans who are ultimately descended
from people from sub-Saharan Africa. African-Americans are the largest racial minority in
the country.
African-Americans arrived in the
United States via a number of
different routes. The ancestors of many African-Americans were brought to the country
as slaves, during the 19th century or earlier. Other African-Americans immigrated to the
US voluntarily, from
Africa, from the Caribbean, or from Latin America.
African-American cuisine reflects the nature of the African-American community.
Some dishes, particularly what is known "Soul Food",
trace their origins to American South, and in particular low-cost foods that were available to
slaves. Other African-American dishes, include dishes influenced by
Caribbean cuisine,
Latin American cuisine,
and of course,
African cuisine.
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By Teetee Weisel
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The close relationship between food and the spiritual dimensions of one’s life is the focus of Manna from the Motherland. A central theme in the book is that the health and happiness we all deserve can easily be experienced when we choose a healthy diet, live with conscious intention, and cultivate spiritual qualities. Using some of the more common recipes from Liberia, Ghana, and Kenya, this book adapts their vegetarian variations. While the main focus of the book is on African vegetarian cuisine, it contains other themes for physical, emotional, and spiritual enhancement. There are sections on meditation, hatha yoga, walking for physical fitness, as well as poems with a spiritual theme, which are all incorporated within a philosophy of good food and aim to create a whole and enlightened person. Interwoven into the savory recipes, spiritual enhancement themes, and poetry are also stories from the author’s own life that were either influenced by the inclusion of certain foods or relate to the emotions evoked by them. The stories begin with the author’s childhood in Liberia (in the 1950s) and continue through the mid-1990s. They reveal cultural attitudes about food and a person’s size, the perception of certain foods as "security foods," and the influences of other ethnic groups on African cuisine, such as the Indians in East Africa and the Syrians and Lebanese in West Africa. |
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