Classic soul food recipes are honored, but with new spices, new flavors, and simpler techniques. Harlem Really Cooks combines art, history, photographs, personal anecdotes, and nostalgia. A portrait of the new Harlem, as seen through the eyes of a life-long resident and expert home cook.
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Presents a legendary neighborhood as if it were an elegant potluck: Everything is served with warm and welcoming style. -- Miami Herald
Reading about Lawrence's food is the next best thing to inhaling one's own plateful. -- Washington Post
Reading about Lawrence's food is the next best thing to inhaling one's own plateful. -- Washington Post
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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An Extraordinary Cookbook,
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This review is from: Harlem Really Cooks: The Nouvelle Soul Food of Harlem (Paperback)
Harlem Really Cooks is more than a cookbook. It's a sharing of stories at a family reunion, a visit to an art gallery, it's experiencing Harlem, Africa or the Caribbean, without leaving home. I love this book and give it the highest recommendation.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Harlem Really Cooks is a beautiful work of visual and literary art that documents a specific period in Harlem through recipes, illustrations, references and stories. The book provides menus that are composed of a mélange of recipes from the author- Sandra Lawrence, and her social network which spans the US, Africa and the Caribbean. She shares personal and humorous stories around the menus and recipes that are gustatory celebrations of a slice of the American life, relationships between mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, grandmothers and granddaughters, friendships forged across the Caribbean and Africa- Guyana, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Senegal and Ethiopia. Food is depicted as the expression of love, friendship, struggles and celebrations. This is complemented by Benny Andrews' selected works from his illustrations between 1985 to 2004, magnifying a part of life that is musical and poignant and that celebrates life and history. The blues motif illustrations complement the recipes influenced by the historical struggle. And, the selections from the Langston Hughes and Migrant series conjure up images of the poetry of Harlem renaissance and the first migration. These expressions of Sandra Lawrence and Benny Andrews provide a sense of timelessness in the shared understanding of food as the expression of love, commitment, meaningful interactions and history I read the book not as a cook book but as a historical document, designed beautifully and deserving a place in museums that capture a slice of the American life.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Harlem Really Cooks: The Nouvelle Soul Food of Harlem (Paperback)
It's a great book. I like the fact that it's broked down into seasons and the receipes are easy to follow. The Cuban port receipe is wonderful! I love that it also has nice art work.
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