BOOKS

The Taste of Country Cooking

If chef's have Bibles this would be mine. A cookbook I use so often I have two copies. It is a love letter to Virginia and cooking according to the season.

Praisesong for The Kitchen ghosts

Another cookbook dedicated to southern cooks and foodways. Praisesong is equal parts memoir and manual for Afro-Appalachian food.

the jemima code

We can't talk about African American women in food without showing reverence to Toni Tipton-Martin. This is one of multiple cookbooks she has compiled on food traditions of black people in the US and abroad.