Vertamae Cooks in the Americas' Family Kitchen (Americas' Family Kitchen

San Francisco: KQED Books, 1996. Quarto (24 x 20 cm.), 192 pages. Illustrated; index. FIRST EDITION. Foreword by Ed Bradley. A companion volume to the PBS series on the art of African-American cuisine with 110 recipes, accompanied by folklore and anecdotes that trace the history and contribution of African roots to American cookery. Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (1937-2016) was a culinary griot, writer, and longtime NPR food columnist, contributing hundreds of commentaries to NPR between 1980 and 2013. Born into a Gullah family in South Carolina, later living in Philadelphia, Paris, and New York. In a lifetime of other fabulous achievements, she was a cook, singer and dance in Sun Ra's Solar Myth Arkestra. Her first book, Vibration Cooking: or, the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, has become a touchstone of African-American food writing. Light abrasion to color wrappers; stocker over bar code. Near fine. Inscribed on the half-title, For Mary, Happy Cooking! Enjoy! Vertamae"