Sharing recipes from the African American food story

"This book broadens the African American food story," Toni Tipton-Martin writes in the introduction of her award-winning book, “Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking.” "It celebrates the enslaved and the free, the working class, the middle class, and the elite. It honors cooking with intentionality and skill, for a purpose and with pleasure."

Cook’s Country magazine, Tipton-Martin grew up in Los Angeles, yet the soul food experience as described in cookbooks was not part of her upbringing. That made her feel isolated before researching and writing “The Jemima Code,” restoring the family values created by her mother.

Toni Tipton-Martin traces recipes in the African American experience in her award-winning book, “Jubilee.” Photo courtesy of Clarkson Potter.