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Informationen zum Autor Herbert C. Covey is a Field Instructor for the Colorado Department of Human Services, and a part-time Instructor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has authored or co-authored seven earlier books, including Street Gangs Throughout the World (2003) and Images of Older People in Western Art and Society (Praeger, 1991). His current research focuses on methamphetamine addiction, production, treatment and the resulting threats to family and child welfare. Klappentext Carefully documenting African American slave foods, this book reveals that slaves actively developed their own foodways-their customs involving family and food. The authors connect African foods and food preparation to the development during slavery of Southern cuisines having African influences, including Cajun, Creole, and what later became known as soul food, drawing on the recollections of ex-slaves recorded by Works Progress Administration interviewers. Valuable for its fascinating look into the very core of slave life, this book makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of slave culture and of the complex power relations encoded in both owners' manipulation of food as a method of slave control and slaves' efforts to evade and undermine that control. While a number of scholars have discussed slaves and their foods, slave foodways remains a relatively unexplored topic. The authors' findings also augment existing knowledge about slave nutrition while documenting new information about slave diets. Zusammenfassung The powerful! long-neglected testimony of former slaves places African American slave foods and foodways at the center of the complex social dynamics of the plantation South. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments 1. The WPA Narratives and Slave Diets 2. Slave Nutrition 3. African Roots and Food Traditions 4. Slave Cooking and Meals 5. Vegetables 6. Meat 7. Wild Game and Fish 8. Dairy 9. Grains, Cereals, and Baked Goods 10. Fruits, Nuts, and Coffee 11. Celebrations, Special Occasions, and the War 12. Closing Observations APPENDICES: FOODS IDENTIFIED IN THE WPA NARRATIVES Appendix A: Vegetables Appendix B: Meats Appendix C: Wild Game: Birds Appendix D: Wild Game: Fish/Shellfish Appendix E: Wild Game: Reptiles and Amphibians Appendix F: Wild Game: Mammals Appendix G: Dairy Appendix H: Grains Appendix I: Baked Goods Appendix J: Fruit Appendix K: Nuts Appendix L: Sugar/Molasses/Spices Appendix M: Beverages Appendix N: General or Unclear Bibliography Index ...
