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Dr. Jessica Harris, The Welcome Table: award-winning author African-American Heritage Cooking and scholar, serves as Pages: 288 NMAAHC’s expert on Recipes: 200+ African American and Copyright © 1996 African Diasporic food ISBN: 068481837X ways. She has devel- Find out more >> oped the menu for the museum café, show- Rum Drinks: 50 Cocktails, casing traditional African-American cuisine from From Cuba Libre to Rum Daisy Pages: 168 the Northern States, the Agricultural South, the Copyright © 2010 Creole Coast, and the Western Range. ISBN: 0811866998 Find out more >>

Other Jessica B. Harris Cookbooks Include:

The Africa Cookbook: Iron Pots & Wooden Tastes of a Continent Spoons: Africa’s Gift to New Pages: 382 World Cooking Recipes: 200+ Pages: 224 Copyright © 1998 Recipes: 175+ ISBN: 0684802759 Copyright © 1999 ISBN: Find out more >> 0684853264 Find out more >> Beyond Gumbo: Creole Fusion Food from The Martha’s Vineyard Table the Atlantic Rim Pages: 204 Pages: 400 Recipes: 80 Recipes: 150 Copyright © 2010 Copyright © 2003 ISBN: 0811866998 ISBN: 0684870622 Find out more >> Find out more >>

Sky Juice and Flying Fish: High on the Hog: Traditional Caribbean A Culinary Journey from Cooking Africa to America Pages: 246 Pages: 304 Copyright © 1991 Copyright © 2011 ISBN: 9780671681654 ISBN: B00B9ZMNVO Find out more >> Find out more >>

1 Thematic Menu and Music Selections from The Welcome Table by Dr. Jessica B. Harris

MENU: Kwanzaa Feast MENU: Palm Sunday Tea Roasted Peanuts Pound Cake Pickled Black-eyed Peas Pink Pralines Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Sweet Potato Pie Chicken Yassa MUSIC: Aretha Franklin's "Amazing Grace" Plain White Rice James Cleveland’s “Peace Be Still” Cucumber Salad Al Green’s Gospel Album Salade de Fruits (Fruit Salad) MUSIC: Olatunji's Drums of Passion! Youssou N’Dour MENU: "Sweet Tooth" Dessert Buffet Molasses Pie Chess Pie Fast Fudge MENU: Chitlin’ Soiree Pralines Super-rich Virginia Crab Cakes (small size) Aunt Zora's Tea Cakes Chitterlings Pound Cake Southern Succotash MUSIC: Scott Joplin's Rags and Cakewalks Wilted Dandelion Greens with Hot Dressing Jalapeno Cornbread Vintage Champagne MENU: Funeral Meats MUSIC: Anything by Duke Ellington Macaroni and Cheese Mixed Greens Slow-cooked String Beans and Ham MENU: “I Loves You Porgy” Carolina Fish Fry Iron-Skillet Fried Porgies Baked Ham Deviled Eggs Molasses Pie Cole Slaw Pecan Pie Potato Salad Sweet Potato Pie Hush Puppies MUSIC: Olympia Brass Band and the Zion Pecan Pie Harmonizers MUSIC: Songs from Porgy & Bess by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, or Bess You Is My Woman Now MENU: Maryland Crab Feast (Duet) by Leontyne Price and Deviled Crabmeat William Warfield Batter-fried Soft-Shell Crabs Maryland Crab Cakes Hot Vinegar MENU: Low Country Luxe Okra and Rice Cheese Straws French-fried Sweet Potatoes Shrimp Fritters MUSIC: Cool Jazz She-Crab Soup Limpin' Susan Avocado and Grapefruit Salad Fresh Ham with Peach-Sage Marinade MENU: Classic Creole Minted -Green Peas Fried Eggplant (Galatoire Style) Broiled Peaches Gumbo Z'Herbes Benne Seed Wafers Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce MUSIC: Marsalis and Battle "Baroque Duet" Cafe Brulot Cocktail MUSIC: Sweet Emma and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band

2 MENU: Motown Munchies MENU: Breakfast Bonanza Deviled Eggs Ham with Red-Eye Gravy Peanut Soup Grits Carrot and Raisin Salad Fried Green Tomatoes Gospel Bird Broiled Peaches Creamed Corn MUSIC: None, just blissful silence Quick Greens (Brazil Style) and the sound of quiet chewing Bean Pie MUSIC: Motown Classics by the Supremes, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and the rest… MENU: North Ca'lina Cue Chopped Barbecue Sandwich Cole Slaw MUSIC: Old Rhythm and Blues Tunes MENU: Dunbar Food Feast Roasted Peanuts Iron-Skillet Fried Chicken MENU: Something Special Plain White Rice Jerusalem Artichokes Tomato, Cucumber, and Onion Salad Wilted Spinach Corn on the Cob Milk Rice Basic Okra Creamed Corn Fried Pies Grilled Tomatoes Watermelon Roast Leg of Lamb MUSIC: African-American Beaten Biscuits Classic spirituals, work songs, Lemon Meringue Pie blues MUSIC: Anything by the Neville Brothers

MENU: Pigfeet and a Bottle of Beer Bash MENU: Nighttime Is the Right Time Spicy Pecans (Chicken and Waffles Midnight Supper) Deviled Crabmeat Iron-Skillet Fried Chicken Hot Potato Salad Waffles Pig's Feet Vintage Champagne Hot Vinegar MUSIC: The Platters, The Chantells, Ray Iron-Skillet White Cornbread Charles and black music of the Fifties and Banana Pudding Sixties MUSIC: Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and the Blues Queens

MENU: How I Got Ovah Slave Remembrance Supper MENU: Saturday Night Stomp Gospel Bird Pickled Okra Hominy Grits Fried Chicken Livers Mixed Greens Plain White Rice Baked Sweet Potatoes Cole Slaw Iron-Skillet White Cornbread Biscuits Molasses Pie Banana Fritters MUSIC: Fisk Jubilee Singers or the MUSIC: Jazz by your favorite Artists Soundtrack from "Roots"

3 Thematic Menu and Music Selections from Rum Drinks: 50 Caribbean Cocktails, from Cuba Libre to Rum Daisy by Dr. Jessica B. Harris

Fete Francaise Pirate Party This party celebrates the Arrgh! Well shiver me timbers, French side of the Caribbean why let Johnny Depp have all the and is inspired by the festivi- fun? Sometimes getting dressed up ties that accompany the Fete makes for a grand time. Have your des Cuisinieres (The Feast friends sign on to the good ship of of the Women Cooks) that is fun. Send invitations in the form of held annually on Guadeloupe treasure maps. Require costumes around August 10, the feast day of their patron. and have eye-patches and clip-on earrings and bandanas St. Lawrence was martyred on the grill. In fact, the for the recalcitrant. embroidered aprons that are a part of the traditional ■■ Zombies (pg. 124) dress of the Cuisinieres have a grill as their center- ■■ Navy Grogs (pg. 117) piece. Each August, the ladies - the oldest of whom ■■ Your Own Spiced Rum (pg. 103-109) is over 100 - get together, don their matching grades ■■ High-Octane Limeades made with Captain robes creoles, and tons of real 18-karat gold jewelry Morgan Spiced Rum (pg. 96) and head off to mass followed by a grand gorge. ■■ Plantain Chips (pg. 128) Try one yourself in their honor. Go backward in ■■ Coconut Crisps (pg. 130) time and look for music by old bands that play tradi- ■■ Caribbean-Style Deviled Eggs (pg. 144) tional bigines, like Alexandre Stellio who was popular in France in the 1930s. Or select your music from the Holiday Happenings albums by Kassav, the classic zouk group from the While Caribbean cocktails mainly French Antilles. bring to mind tropical beaches ■■ ‘Ti Punch (pg. 58) and soft breezes, holiday season ■■ Pineapple-Infused Rum (pg. 106) in the Caribbean has its own ver- ■■ Avocado and Saltfish Paste/Feroce of ‘Avocat (pg. sion of cheer. Try to bring some 149) with French Bread Toasts warmth into your holiday the Ca- ■■ Marinated Green Mangos/Souskai de Mangues ribbean way with this festive fete. Verts (pg. 146) Steel bands playing Christmas carols, Parang from ■■ Olives Trinidad, or any one of the numerous compilations of ■■ French secs (dry ) Caribbean music are a good background for a Caribbean holiday party. ■■ Sorrels (pg. 92) ■■ Shrubbs (pg. 103) ■■ Ponche Cremas (pg. 85) ■■ Puerto Rican Corn Fritters/Surrulitos (pg. 136) ■■ Flaked Saltfish/Chiquetaille de Morue (pg. 148) ■■ Bacon-Wrapped Pickled Watermelon (pg. 131)

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