Jessica Harris: 17 books
African American Fraternities and Sororities
The Legacy and the Vision
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presence...
My Soul Looks Back
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth “surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties…James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone” (New York magazine)—in a vibrant, lost era of New York City.
In...
High on the Hog
A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Winner of the IACP Award for Culinary History
Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, and tracking the trials that the people and the food have undergone...
by Jessica B. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Martha's Vineyard has long been renowned as a popular vacation destination, but few are aware of the island's rich culinary history. Martha's Vineyard Table celebrates the cuisine of this seaside escape with such treats as Codfish Fritters, Stuffed Quahogs, Corn Pudding, and Cranberry-Apple Crisp....
by Nicola Marsh, Michelle Smart, Lynn Raye Harris
Language: German
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: April 7, 2015
LIEBESSOMER AUF SIZILIEN von SMART, MICHELLE "Du spielst mit dem Feuer." Bei Francescos Worten überläuft Hannah ein Schauer: Sie weiß nichts über den Sizilianer, außer dass er gefährlich sexy ist! Leichtfertig schlägt sie seine Warnung in den Wind. Doch schon sein erster feuriger...
Julia Extra Band 0307
Schenk mir diesen Tanz, Cinderella / Heisse Küsse unter griechischer Sonne / Glaub an dieses Wunder, Faith! / Die Rache des spanischen Millionärs /
Language: German
Release Date: December 8, 2009
SCHENK MIR DIESEN TANZ, CINDERELLA von HART, JESSICA
Wie Cinderella fühlt Miranda sich in dem geliehenen Ballkleid. Als ihr Traumprinz Rafe sie unter all den anderen Frauen schließlich zum Tanz auffordert, spinnt sie in Gedanken das Märchen weiter. Was wird geschehen, wenn die Uhr Mitternacht schlägt?
HEISSE...
Cornbread Nation 7
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region,...
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...
Another South
Experimental Writing in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...
Rum Drinks
50 Caribbean Cocktails, From Cuba Libre to Rum Daisy
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
With recipes for 40 of the Caribbean's classic and contemporary cocktails and 15 traditional snacks to accompany them, Rum Drinks provides a tropical taste vacation. More than a cocktail book, Rum Drinks is your ultimate rum resource, including salty tales—from a history of the sugar trade to the...
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness
The Journey Unraveled
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and...
Sweet Home Café Cookbook
A Celebration of African American Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
A celebration of African American cooking with 109 recipes from the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Sweet Home Café
Since the 2016 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, its Sweet Home Café has become a destination in its own right....
Sky Juice and Flying Fish
Tastes Of A Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Savor the food, flavor, rhythm, and romance of the Caribbean.
A truly authentic guide to down-home traditional Caribbean cooking, the kind you'd find at roadside stands, Sky Juice and Flying Fish captures the feel of the Islands, bringing the blue-green sea, the tropical breeze, and the exotic scents...
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