Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island nuts Rebecca: - Rebecca Sharpless is

Rebecca: - Rebecca Sharpless is professor of history at Texas Christian University

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Courtney provides tips throughout to make the most of your gathering: try embellishing a plate with edible flower petals or create mini versions of a well-known dessert

It also offers wonderful recipes that can be re-created today by anyone willing to include some trial and error in the cooking process to allow for changes wrought in ingredients and kitchen technology by the passage of more than a century

With step-by-step photos and straightforward instructions

Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island nuts Rebecca: - Rebecca Sharpless isAuthor: 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