2021/047: Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl -- Vertamae Smart-Grosven

2021/047: Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl -- Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

In Paris I used to eat what they called crepes ... delicate to make and you have to have an expensive and fancy pan to make them. I prefer hoe cake like Grandmama Sula used to make ... Hoe cake got its name from the hoe. Slaves would cook batter on the flat edge of the hoe in the fields for the noonday meal. You don't have to cook it on the metal part of the hoe cause we ain't slaves no mo'. [p.16]

For the 'Cookbook by a Woman of Colour' prompt of the Reading Women Challenge 2021 I wanted a cookbook that was more than just a collection of recipes, and Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor's 1970 Vibration Cooking was highly recommended. I even bought a paperback, rather than an ebook!

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