On Jun 25, 11:28*am, "brooklyn1" > wrote:
> Except for the wee amount of peanut butter (and any vegetable oil could be
> substituted) there's absolutely nothing African about those recipes...
> whoever wrote that book wouldn't know a tube steak from a hill of beans.

about the author:

Jessica B. Harris is the author of seven critically acclaimed
cookbooks documenting the foods of the African Diaspora. Hot Stuff: A
Cookbook in Praise of the Piquant (Atheneum, 1985; Ballantine, 1986),
Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons: Africa's Gifts to New World Cooking
(Atheneum, 1989; Ballantine, 1991), Sky Juice and Flying Fish:
Traditional Caribbean Cooking (Fireside, 1991), Tasting Brazil:
Brazilian Recipes and Reminiscences (Macmillan, 1992) and The Welcome
Table: African-American Heritage Cooking (Simon & Schuster, 1995), A
Kwanzaa Keepsake: Celebrating The Holiday with New Traditions and
Feasts (Simon & Schuster, 1995). The Africa Cookbook is her seventh
book.

In over 25 years as a journalist, Harris has written about the culture
and foodways of the African Diaspora for publications ranging from
Essence magazine where she was travel editor from 1978 to 1981—to
Vogue —to The New York Times. She has also written for Caribbean
Travel and Life, Food and Wine, New Woman, Travel Weekly, Africa
Commentary, Black Enterprise and other publications.

As a culinary historian, Harris has lectured on the foodways of
African-Americans at the Museum of Natural History in New York City,
the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, The California Academy
of Sciences in San Francisco and at numerous institutions and colleges
around the country. She has been profiled in The New York Times, The
Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers, as
well as magazine such as Gourmet, Food & Wine, Eating Well, Cooking
Light and New Woman.

A native of New York, Harris is a tenured full professor of English
composition at Queens College in New York City. She holds degrees from
Bryn Mawr College, New York University, Queens CUNY, and Université de
Nancy, France. She is a member of AIWF, ASCP, and Les Dames
d'Escoffier's New York Chapter.