A Taste Of Freedom: A Cookbook With Recipes and Remembrances from the Hampton Institute [Hardcover]

Carolyn Quick Tillery (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 260 pages
• Publisher: Citadel Press (April 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806523212
• ISBN-13: 978-0806523217
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,199,954 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Carolyn Quick Tillery
It was about a decade ago that Carolyn Quick Tillery married two of her passions - history and food - to create a "pick up and go" career for herself. In 1994, she decided to write a book about the history of her alma mater, Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. And from the beginning, she decided to fold in food stories and recipes. Tillery was influenced by food and a powerful oral tradition as a child. A year and a half after beginning, Tillery published The African-American Heritage Cookbook acclaimed for its lively storytelling and Sweet Potato Soup, Mom's Devilish Catfish Stew, Smothered Yard Bird and more than 200 other recipes, rich in flavor and tradition. This was soon followed by the Military Wives Cookbook, which offers readers rare and fascinating tidbits of U.S. history from the perspective of America's military wives while framing nearly 50 sets of recipes with quotes, stories and vintage photographs, in such chapters as "An Independence Tea Party," "Yankee Doodle Pot Roast Dinner," "A Colonial Thanksgiving" and "Christmas in the Confederate White House." Martha Washington, Libbie Custer and Jefferson Davis' wife, Varina, are among the women who share their stories.
A former judicial law clerk, prosecuting attorney and United States Air Force Officer, Ms. Tillery currently manages the United States Central Command Personal & Family Readiness Program, which prepares military families for all phases of deployment and provides them with information to enhance the quality of their lives. She is the author of "A Taste of Freedom," "The African-American History Cookbook" and "Southern Homecoming Traditions," which was a finalist for the prestigious NAACP Image Award.
Southern Homecoming Traditions, the fourth installment in Tillery's African-American Heritage Cookbook series is similar in tone and style: each is really two books in one, a collection of regional recipes as well as a detailed examination of a particular facet of African-American history. Her most recent book is a celebration of the five historic black colleges and one university that comprise the Atlanta University Center: Morehouse, Spelman, and Morris Brown Colleges, Morehouse School of Medicine, Interdenominational Theological Center, and Clark-Atlanta University. Author Carolyn Quick Tillery uses the evocative power of food to take us back to the institutions where so many great African-American leaders were educated, and the region where so many great dishes were created.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Our Home by the Sea, January 27, 2009

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This review is from: A Taste Of Freedom: A Cookbook With Recipes and Remembrances from the Hampton Institute (Hardcover)

My daughter attends Hampton (class of '11) so I really have an affinity for the school and the area surrounding it. The book is not just a cook book, but a trip through the history of Hampton University by way of words and photos. Included are recipes from the Hampton Cross Roads area. This may be the only weakness of the book: that the recipes are not from those who attended or taught at Hampton (as was the case with the Tuskeegee Institute cookbook Ms. Tillery eidted) but rather they are from the greater Hampton Cross Roads area, which Ms. Tillery explains. The book inspires great nostalgia and great respect for Hampton. The recipes loook delicious. Taste of Freedom was well worth the purchase!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Cooking, November 7, 2006

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This review is from: A Taste Of Freedom: A Cookbook With Recipes and Remembrances from the Hampton Institute (Hardcover)

This is a nice piece of history about Hampton Institute (now University). We're going to replicate some of the recipes for my book club meeting.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Similar to Others in Series, October 21, 2005

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This review is from: A Taste Of Freedom: A Cookbook With Recipes and Remembrances from the Hampton Institute (Hardcover)

As with the author's other books in this series, this book lacks the historic info behind all of the recipes. I do enjoy the background and pictures that are included. I purchased this book more for its historical value than for the recipes.

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