The Menu

Three cookbooks open to the recipes that are shared in the next three webpages.
The recipes that are featured in the next three webpages. (Photo by Hannah Griffith)

“A cookbook can serve simply as a compendium of recipes or it can offer a story of a people and a place.”1

Matthew Raiford

Here you will find delicious recipes, one from each cookbook by Vertamae Smart Grosvenor, Sallie Ann Robinson and Matthew Raiford, and the last one—Hoppin’ John—just because it was too important to leave out. Enjoy!

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Shrimp and Sausage Gumbo — Vertamae Grosvenor
“I know that in Louisiana, “first you roux” …

Footnotes

  1. Matthew Raiford with Amy Paige Condon, Bress ‘N’ Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer, (New York: The Countryman Press, 2021), 20. Available here.

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