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“A celebration of African American cuisine right now, in all of its abundance and variety.”—Tejal Rao, The New York Times

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • IACP AWARD WINNER • IACP BOOK OF THE YEAR • TONI TIPTON-MARTIN NAMED THE 2021 JULIA CHILD AWARD RECIPIENT

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The New Yorker • NPR • Chicago Tribune • The Atlantic • BuzzFeed • Food52

Throughout her career, Toni Tipton-Martin has shed new light on the history, breadth, and depth of African American cuisine. She’s introduced us to black cooks, some long forgotten, who established much of what’s considered to be our national cuisine. After all, if Thomas Jefferson introduced French haute cuisine to this country, who do you think actually cooked it?
 
In Jubilee, Tipton-Martin brings these masters into our kitchens. Through recipes and stories, we cook along with these pioneering figures, from enslaved chefs
 to middle- and upper-class writers and entrepreneurs. With more than 100 recipes, from classics such as Sweet Potato Biscuits, Seafood Gumbo, Buttermilk Fried Chicken, and Pecan Pie with Bourbon to lesser-known but even more decadent dishes like Bourbon & Apple Hot Toddies, Spoon Bread, and Baked Ham Glazed with Champagne, Jubilee presents techniques, ingredients, and dishes that show the roots of African American cooking—deeply beautiful, culturally diverse, fit for celebration.

Praise for Jubilee

“There are precious few feelings as nice as one that comes from falling in love with a cookbook. . . . New techniques, new flavors, new narratives—everything so thrilling you want to make the recipes over and over again . . . this has been my experience with Toni Tipton-Martin’s Jubilee.”—Sam Sifton, The New York Times

“Despite their deep roots, the recipes—even the oldest ones—feel fresh and modern, a testament to the essentiality of African-American gastronomy to all of American cuisine.”—The New Yorker

“Jubilee is part-essential history lesson, part-brilliantly researched culinary artifact, and wholly functional, not to mention deeply delicious.”—Kitchn

“Tipton-Martin has given us the gift of a clear view of the generosity of the black hands that have flavored and shaped American cuisine for over two centuries.”—Taste

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarkson Potter; 1st edition (November 5, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1524761737
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1524761738
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.75 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.2 x 1.1 x 10.3 inches
Reviewer: carolb
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Well written, interesting and very educational
Review: This is one of the cookbooks that will not go down in history for its fabulous recipes, but for the historical background provided on the topic, the multitude of references given to other authors/cookbooks that will allow you to delve deeper into the roots of african-american cooking and the history of recipes. I have notes for quite a few other cookbooks now to find and explore.I read this cookbook cover to cover. The author is a good writer with ease at story telling mixed with lots of facts and historical notes. The book is accessible, the photos well composed.Not seeing any really exciting and new recipes here, however, the recipes in the book come together well, and they are not difficult to follow.If you are looking for an in depth collection of Southern, Soul or African American recipes, this would not be my first choice of cookbook. But if you want to learn something about how these recipes came about, the people who cooked them, and the history of black cooks and cooking, this is a valuable and well researched read.I would like to have a picture reference either with the recipe or with the picture. It is a bit of guess work which recipe is actually shown.Well worth the cost for the content.

Reviewer: James Bannon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic cookbook!!
Review: Great recipes and historical background.

Reviewer: jenjenbobdog
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Beautiful book-amazing stories-fantastic food
Review: WOW! WOW! WOW!i loved everything about this book. The photos, the stories, the food....the food.BUY THIS BOOK and keep it on your counter and use it over and over.

Reviewer: M. Johnson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Celebrate food
Review: Today I am reminded of how important vital cookbooks are to my life and our culture. Reading The Best Afghan cooking which honors a culture and cuisine I reach for Jubilee which taught me about my home and food , family and culture. I am not southern or black but time and time again when I cook something from this book I am brought back to home and Community. One of the finest reading/eating experiences you can have,,.

Reviewer: Honest Reviewer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Got it from a YouTube video
Review: I think I am going to return because the spine of the book is falling apart upon delivery. Recipes look interesting though.

Reviewer: Rhonda Byrom
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Mouth watering dishes and lots of history behind them.
Review: This book has numerous mouth watering recipes I want to try. Most recipe books I only make a half dozen recipes.

Reviewer: Mary C.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Magnificent, certain to be a Beard Award winner.
Review: Although I live in the far North, I was aware of Ms. Tipton-Martin's reputation as a scholar of African-American culinary history, and was happy to pay full price for this volume. I did not expect to be stunned, on nearly every page, by the author's extensive research, for which she drew in large part on her collection of more than 400 Black cookbooks dating back to 1827. I felt privileged to learn of the rich and fascinating history of not only the cuisine, but every recipe.This is my kind of cookbook: from the extensive chapter introductions and headnotes, I learned something on every page. As a Caucasian, so much of the culinary history and its backstories were, I am sorry to say, new to me. Moreover, I stuck a quite respectable number of Post-It's on the book's pages, and I look forward to honoring these traditions by making many dishes from the book.Only a few of the ingredients are not accessible to me, living as I do in the middle of nowhere; and so, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I can find the vast majority easily. The author occasionally suggests substitutions and brand names: two things that are always appreciated! Finally, almost every recipe has a gorgeous color photo, the exceptions being simple sauces and dressings.

Reviewer: MomReviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Reliably delicious and realistic recipes!
Review: This is hands down the best cookbook I've ever purchased. I bought one for my brother at Christmas but desperately wanted one for myself. My brother kept giving rave review of the recipes he was making, so I finally bought the book in May and have been cooking my way through it ever since. I highly recommended the book to my Dad who immediately purchased it and has also been cooking/baking recipe after recipe. We ALL love it so much. I even gifted the book in June to my aunt--thinking she may want to add some new creations to her time at home due to the pandemic. The history in the book is as wonderful to read as the recipes are to make. I cannot recommend this book enough. So far, some of my very favorites are the Caramel Cake with Brown Sugar Buttercream Frosting, the Louisiana Barbecued Shrimp, the Molasses-Spice Cookies (made with Every-Kind-of-Cookie Dough), the Braised Summer Squash with Onions, the Island Banana Bread, theCatfish Etouffe, and the Biscuit-Topped Chicken Pot Pie. The next three recipes I plan to make are the Caribbean Roast Pork, the Bread Pudding, and the Salmon Croquettes. I truly am enjoying everything about this well-written cookbook, filled with reliably delicious and mostly easy-to-prepare recipes.

Reviewer: Edie Jarvis-Fast
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Love the layout and pictures. Recipes are soo great.

Reviewer: Hannah
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Delicious recipes which really tell a story and a history. Highly recommend and give a wonderful insight into this rich cultural food history.

Reviewer: ApplePieMaryPie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Chi ricorda lo splendido Radici di Aldous Huxley, non potrà fare a meno di trovare un paragone culinario in questo splendido libro, che racconta le origini della cucina Gullah-Geechee: dalle coste dell'Africa Occidentale infatti, gli schiavi catturati hanno portato con se' il riso e la capacità di coltivarlo e cucinarlo, trapiantando tale sapere nelle terre dove sono stati imprigionati e maltrattati per generazioni. Ancora oggi il popolo Gullah -Geechee conserva orgogliosamente le sue radici etniche e culturali e porta avanti una cucina unica al mondo, eppure sconosciuta ai più. Da non perdere, assolutamente, e da assaporare piatto per piatto, storia per storia.

Reviewer: Cintli Maíz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Obra maestra. Una gema preciosa de historia de la cocina afrodescendiente en Estados Unidos con esbozos del resto de América y de África. Recetas creadas por la autora desde la interpretación y actualización de recetas tradicionales, acompañadas por recetas antiguas literales que resultan muy emotivas porque muestran los ingredientes y medidas originales. Himno de orgullo afro. Consecuencia de una basta investigación gastronómica. Verdadero activismo culinario. No sólo para amantes de la cocina y la historia, sino para quienes estén interesados en los movimientos de resistencia, y quienes aprecien y reconozcan las tradiciones y cultura de ancestros resilentes propios y ajenos. Tenía mucho tiempo que no me emocionaba tanto un libro de cocina.

Reviewer: Jane Whibley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Purchased as a gift. Recipient very pleased with the choice and is enjoying her cooking experience.