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Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine Kelley Fanto Deetz
Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
Kelley Fanto Deetz
Draws on archaeological evidence, cookbooks, plantation records, and folklore to present a nuanced study of the lives of enslaved plantation cooks from colonial times through emancipation and beyond. Kelley Fanto Deetz reveals how these men and women were literally “bound to the fire” as they lived and worked in the sweltering and often fetid conditions of plantation house kitchens.
162 pages, 7 black & white images
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 17, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813174730 |
| Publishers | The University Press of Kentucky |
| Pages | 186 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 317 g |