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February 20th, 2008 edition of The Daily Sauce: Food and Wine. Visit Our Food and Wine Archive.

Black Women, Black Cookbooks, Black History Month

There is no limit to Rafia Zafar’s thirst – and hunger – for knowledge, especially when it comes to the role of food in American and African-American culture. Even in her American literature classes at Washington University, where she’s a professor of English, African and African-American Studies, Zafar and her students talk food and read classics like A Moveable Feast, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook and Like Water for Chocolate.

Hungry for more? You could read her chapter, The Signifying Dish: Autobiography and History in Two Black Women’s Cookbooks, in Carole Counihan’s book, Food in the USA: A Reader (2002, Routledge). Or you could show up Sunday to hear Dr. Z (as her students call her) deliver the St. Louis Public Library’s Black History Month Talk, Cookbooks by Black Women Authors in the Post Civil Rights Era. Afterwards, you can enjoy refreshments and ask the New York City native about her experiences as one of Giorgio DeLuca’s first employees, before Joel Dean entered the scene.

Sauce pick: Rafia Zafar's lecture, Cookbooks by Black Women Authors in the Post Civil Rights Era
Price: Free
Where to get it: Sun., Feb. 24 – 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Julia Davis Branch of the St. Louis Public Library, 4415 Natural Bridge, St. Louis.
Info: 314.383.3021

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