Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine (Jessica B. Harris) food history now for the first time

now for the first time featuring color photos

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Interspersed throughout are essays where J-C shares the full breadth of his culinary experience

Published for the benefit of the Ladies’ Home Missionary Society

Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine (Jessica B. Harris) food history now for the first timeOne of our preeminent culinary historians, Dr. Jessica B. Harris has conducted decades of research throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, and Africa. In this telling of the origins of American food, though, she gets more personal. As heritage is history, she intertwines the larger sweeping past with stories and recipes from friends shes made over the yearspeople whose family dishes go back to the crucial era when Native peoples encountered Europeans