Attention,
Cyber-Shoppers:
'Tis the Season to soothe your Spirit with
S O U L F O O D.
If you're looking for a cookbook...
...check out
http://www.best-soul-food-cookbooks.com/list.html...
For those of you
with Diabetes
or other
health concerns,
may we
recommend
highly
The New
Soul Food
Cookbook,
by
Gaines & Weaver
(pictured at left)?
To order
or see recipes,
click
here.
The
Black Family Reunion Cookbook:
Recipes & Food Memories
from the National Council of Negro Women.
(pictured at right)
The Black Family Reunion Celebrations, organized by
The National Council of Negro Women and held in seven cities
across America every summer, celebrate and preserve
the values, traditions, and strengths of the African-American family.
Inspired by these festivals, The Black Family Reunion Cookbook
contains more than 250 recipes from home kitchens
across America, seasoned with warm memories and "homemade love."
From The Black Family Reunion Cookbook:
"Because we have forgotten our
ancestors, our children no longer give us honor.
Because we have lost the path
our ancestors cleared kneeling in perilous undergrowth,
our children cannot find their
way.
Because we have banished the
God of our ancestors, our children cannot pray.
Because the old wails of our
ancestors have faded beyond our hearing,
our children cannot hear us crying.
Because we have abandoned our
wisdom of mothering and fathering,
our befuddled children give birth
to children they neither want nor understand..
Because we have forgotten how
to love, the adversary is within our gates,
and holds us up to the mirror
of the world shouting, "Regard the loveless."
Therefore, we pledge to bind ourselves
to one another,
To embrace our lowliest,
To keep company with our loneliest,
To educate our illiterate,
To feed our starving,
To clothe our ragged,
To do all good things, knowing
that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters.
We are our brothers and sisters.
In honor of those who toiled
and implored God with golden tongues,
and in gratitude to the same
God who brought us out of hopeless desolation,
We make this pledge."
By Dr. Maya Angelou.
Written expressly for the National
Council of Negro Women Black Family Reunion Celebration
on May 14, 1986.
To order the cookbook,
click
here.
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