Reposted March 20, 2019, for OLD WAYS Oldways is a nonprofit organization helping people rediscover and embrace the healthy, sustainable joys of the "old ways" of shared cultural traditions.
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| Jessica Harris |
Jessica Harris is one of my favorite cookbook authors when I try out recipes for the first time. Although I am profiling her during Women's History Month, I praise and honor Jessica B. Harris because she is "Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America." She gives you the recipe and gives you knowledge in her narratives.
Educator and culinary historian Jessica Harris is the author of twelve cookbooks documenting the foods and foodways of the African Diaspora. Her most recent book is High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America. In addition, she has written extensively about the culture of Africa in the Americas, lectured widely, and made numerous television appearances.
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| High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America. |
Jessica holds a Ph.D. from NYU and is an English professor at Queens College, CUNY. In addition, she consults at Dillard University in New Orleans, where she founded the Institute for the Study of Culinary Cultures. Harris is a founding member of the Southern Foodways Alliance, IACP, and Les Dames d'Escoffier.
Her articles have appeared in Eating Well, Food &; Wine, Essence, and The New Yorker, among other publications, and she has been profiled in The New York Times. In addition, Harris has spoken about the food of African Americans on The Today Show, and Good Morning America, and at the Museum of Natural History, and has been a frequent guest at Philadelphia's The Book and the Cook.
In 2004, Harris was awarded the Jack Daniel's Lifetime Achievement Award. She was also recently inducted into the James Beard Foundation's prestigious Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America. To learn more about Jessica, go to www.africooks.com.
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