Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family

295 Pages·2015·9.04 MB·English

by  Alice Randall

Copyright © 2015 by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams Principal photographs by Penny De Los
Santos, copyright © 2015 by Penny De Los Santos
All rights reserved.
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“George Washington Carver Vermont Olives” first appeared in the Carver Bulletins (August 1936). Reprinted
here courtesy of Tuskegee University Archives.
Archival photographs courtesy of the author. Photograph of Joan Williams is reprinted courtesy of the
Nashville Public Library.
Pear and carrot illustrations courtesy of Hatch Show Print®; other illustrations carved by Bethany Taylor
specifically for this book and are used with permission of the artist. Hatch Show Print® is owned by the
Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum and operated by the Country Music Foundation, Inc., a Section
501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Randall, Alice.
Soul food love : healthy recipes inspired by one hundred years of cooking
in a black family / Alice Randall and Caroline
Randall Williams ; photographs by Penny De Los Santos.
Includes index.
1. African American cooking. I. Williams, Caroline Randall. II. Title.
TX715.R2136 2015
641.59’296073—dc23 2014014423
ISBN 978-0-804-13793-5
eBook ISBN 978-0-80413794-2
Book design by La Tricia Watford
Cover design by La Tricia Watford and Gabriel Levine
Cover photographs by Penny De Los Santos
Cover illustrations courtesy of Hatch Show Print®;
eggplant and bell pepper by Bethany Taylor
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CONTENTS

PREFACE
A TALE OF FIVE KITCHENS
BY ALICE

Dear
Grandma
Nana
Mama
BY CAROLINE

Baby Girl
SIPS & BITES
SOUPS
MAIN DISHES
SIDES & SALADS
DESSERTS
CROWNS
FOR A CROWD
AFTERWORD… AND A PRAYER
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX