Janie's Journey to Bountiful: Recipes Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (PRE-ORDER)
In her novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Hurston gives insights into the foods being prepared by the characters for everyday meals as well cooking dishes for special occasions. These dishes, having roots in West and Central Africa, adopting native foods and European influences, shaped the African American Floridian culture of real life people's eating traditions, as well as the characters Hurston developed in the novel to reflect the food culture of early twentieth-century Florida.
This cookbook is a love letter to all the women who have endured and is a part of a series of culinary works that indulges book lovers and cooking enthusiasts in the rediscovery of literary works through foods in a historical context.
In her novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Hurston gives insights into the foods being prepared by the characters for everyday meals as well cooking dishes for special occasions. These dishes, having roots in West and Central Africa, adopting native foods and European influences, shaped the African American Floridian culture of real life people's eating traditions, as well as the characters Hurston developed in the novel to reflect the food culture of early twentieth-century Florida.
This cookbook is a love letter to all the women who have endured and is a part of a series of culinary works that indulges book lovers and cooking enthusiasts in the rediscovery of literary works through foods in a historical context.
In her novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Hurston gives insights into the foods being prepared by the characters for everyday meals as well cooking dishes for special occasions. These dishes, having roots in West and Central Africa, adopting native foods and European influences, shaped the African American Floridian culture of real life people's eating traditions, as well as the characters Hurston developed in the novel to reflect the food culture of early twentieth-century Florida.
This cookbook is a love letter to all the women who have endured and is a part of a series of culinary works that indulges book lovers and cooking enthusiasts in the rediscovery of literary works through foods in a historical context.
Product Details
Publisher : Blurb.com (June 16, 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 228 pages
Photographs and Illustrations: 144, Color and Black& White
ISBN: 9798331194871
Item Weight : 0.688 ounces
Dimensions : 10 x 8 inches (Landscape)
