MEALS, MUSIC, AND MUSES by Alexander Smalls - BookPage Starred Review

BookPage | February 18, 2020

“‘Cooking without a song—in your heart, if nothing else—is like cooking without salt and pepper,’ writes chef Alexander Smalls in Meals, Music, and Muses. Here, recipes grounded in the culinary traditions of the African American South are grouped according to the ‘seven styles of African American music that set the bass line for this medley of meals.’ Fried sweet white corn and a salad of field greens and black-eyed peas are among the ‘green things’ that Smalls associates with gospel music; rice, pasta and grits are the stuff of spirituals. Roast quail, pan-fried rabbit, pork loin roasts? Divas, all. There are biscuits and beans and pie to the tune of jazz, opera, jukebox music and serenades (sweet endings), with the pleasure of Smalls’ storytelling along the way to deepen the flavor.”

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