5/28/2023 0 Comments Toni tipton martin cookbook![]() What was your process like when writing ‘Jubilee’? Going through hundreds of recipes is a huge undertaking. So the intention all along was to separate the introduction of the authors to the world from their recipes and just to get readers accustomed to learning that African Americans should be considered proficient in the kitchen and not people who cooked with intuition and some kind of mysterious, magical skills - that they apprenticed and learned technique just like any other chef (did). Once I had this collection of books, it was evident that the authors were telling us a story that had not been told, but we also realized that it was a big story and too much to contain in just one book. I started collecting cookbooks as a first-person source to validate the family and neighborhood experience that just wasn’t visible anywhere. I explain in The Jemima Code that as a (longtime) journalist, I was looking for evidence of my ancestry, of my family, in the pages of Southern food history and was not able to find it. ![]() ![]() What was your inspiration for ‘The Jemima Code,’ and how does that book relate to this most recent one? ![]()
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