Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island PUB198910 True Roots

True Roots

Organized for easy reference

Harrell includes snippets of southern food history

From first bites to easy lunches to mouth-watering dinner dishes and sumptuous desserts

Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island PUB198910 True RootsAuthor: Emily Meggett The first major Gullah Geechee cookbook from "the matriarch of Edisto Island," who provides delicious recipes and the history of an overlooked American communityThe history of the Gullah and Geechee people stretches back centuries, when enslaved members of this community were historically isolated from the rest of the South because of their location on the Sea Islands of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. Today, this Lowcountry