When Joyce White moved to New York City from Alabama, she left small-town life behind and landed ajob as a food editor at a major women's magazine. Weekends, however, found her visiting churches in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvestant, looking for a taste of home. Food has long been a part of the spiritual life of African-American churches, and what she found there, along with what she missed from home, was the comforting blend of cooking and fellowship that feeds both the body and soul.
In this warm and joyful collection, White offers more than 150 recipes for the foods that worshipers look forward to after services, and she captures the spirit of these sociable meals with warm, conversational and occasionally poignant reflections from African-American churchgoers around the United States.
"We don't just come to church service and leave," says a retired nurse who directs hospitality for a large church in Los Angeles. "Many of us stay here half the day. That way we get a chance to rub shoulders and see what is going on or going wrong with each other."
From delicious renditions of classics such as Sugar-Crusted Biscuits to updated favorites such as Black Beans with Sun-Dried Tomatoes, as well as special fare for entertaining and Kwaanza, the pages of Soul Food are alive with the spirit and love of African-American churches -- and the terrific food to be found there.

Soul Food: Recipes and Reflections from African-American Churches

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

WHITE, Joyce

Regional & International

William Morrow Cookbooks

Spiced with stories of family and friends, sweetened by memories of holidays and celebratory meals, Brown Sugar is a slice of life from African American communities across the country. In this collection of recipes and tales, Joyce White passes along generations of kitchen wisdom and dessert favorites, as well as fresh and creative variations on classic sweets.
From the wedding reception-ready Coconut Peach lake to the simple joy of Gingered Tropical Fruits, these are desserts for any occasion. The flavors are comforting and festive, as are the many poignant stories that White shares. A sublime Sweet Potato Cheesecake is passed along from a hardworking mother in California, while Three Sisters Coconut Pie is White's composite of three good friends' favorite pie recipes, each reflecting their unique backgrounds. The results are at once innovative and familiar.
Whether you are looking to make the perfect Lemon Meringue Pie or to preserve summer fruit, these recipes will satisfy your sweet tooth and add heirloom-quality recipes to your collection. The complex flavors of Star Anise Peach Ice Cream and West Indian Christmas Cake are within reach of any home cook, thanks to White's masterful guidance and the tips and cook's secrets that she provides. White's recipes encourage creativity, offering suggestions for variations as well as a solid foundation for your own soul-inspired sweets.
Brown Sugar is warm, memorable, and universal, and you will be eager to share its recipes and stories, to create your own sweet memories.

Brown Sugar: Soul Food Desserts from Family and Friends

Reference

Joyce White a keen beekeeper, who used her honey in much of her cooking has written a recipe book which covers its use in all types of meals together with preserves, beverages and bread making.

Honey in the kitchen

Science & Math

Agricultural Sciences

Bee Books New & Old*

Beautiful greenhorn lady with young son marries ex-rodeo cowboy in 1956 and goes to his old packmule outfit on their honeymoon in isolated Burro Creek Canyon northwest of Prescott, Arizona, 72 miles from town with no electricity, telephone, or mail delivery. She falls in love with the scenic canyon and abundant wildlife, her husband's one-man horse, and his fiercely protective cow dogs but when she sets out to become a cowgirl the oops begin and local cowboys make bets on how long she will last on the ranch. The author tells about old ranch customs and shares historic recipes she learns to prepare for her bridegroom on a sulky wood cookstove. Her 9-year-old son becomes the first child to grow up in the canyon since Indian days and due to the isolation he is homeschooled. He loves the canyon, their animal friends, and having a horse of his own while learning to be a cowboy. Burro Creek Canyon is filled with the joys, dangers, and heartaches of a wild, remote cattle ranch that thrills and captivates everyone from grandparent to grandchild.

Burro Creek Canyon

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Horn Publications

Joyce White's second book in her ranching series describes the family's 1964 spring arrival in the Ozarks with cattle, horses and cow-dogs from remote Burro Creek Canyon, Arizona. Hoping for greener pastures and more rainfall, they begin improving their 400-acre stock farm and the 1920s two-story house. And that's when the mishaps and adventures begin! Her husband and son soon learn how different ranching is in the Missouri Ozarks from Texas and Arizona. They introduce Charolais cattle and Catahoula cowdogs to the area, then pasture irrigation when a drought hits. The author shares customs and recipes from the Hill Country. Mountain Echoes is a homey, humorous, hectic account of settling in the Ozarks and the hardships endured to better their lives; a book for all ages to be read aloud or enjoyed quietly.

Mountain Echoes

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Horn Pub

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Sculpting the Heart: Surviving Depression with Art Therapy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

AuthorHouse

Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual (Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives)

History & Criticism

Lexington Books

This book is about how to write novels.

A Novel Approach

Quality of Course

Writing and Selling Articles

Business & Money

Quality of Course Inc

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