The Antiracist Kitchen: 21 Stories (and Recipes)
(eBook)

This illustrated nonfiction anthology is a collection of stories and recipes about antiracism from 21 North American children's authors. What's on your plate? An anthology featuring stories and recipes from racialized authors about food, culture and resistance What if talking about racism was as easy as baking a cake, frying plantains or cooking rice? The Antiracist Kitchen: 21 Stories (and Recipes) is a celebration of food, family, activism and resistance in the face of racism. In this anthology featuring stories and recipes from 21 diverse and award-winning North American children's authors, the authors share the role of food in their lives and how it has helped fight discrimination, reclaim culture and celebrate people with different backgrounds. They bring personal and sometimes difficult experiences growing up as racialized people. Chopped, seared, marinated and stewed, The Antiracist Kitchen highlights the power of sitting down to share a meal and how that simple act can help bring us all together. Featuring recipes and stories from S.K. Ali, Bryan Patrick Avery, Ruth Behar, Marty Chan, Ann Yu-Kyung Choi, Hasani Claxton, Natasha Deen, Reyna Grande, Deidre Havrelock, Jennifer de Leon, Andrea J. Loney, Janice Lynn Mather, Linda Sue Park, Danny Ramadan, Sarah Raughley, Waubgeshig Rice, Rahma Rodaah, Andrea Rogers, Simran Jeet Singh, Ayelet Tsabari and Susan Yoon. Key Selling Points - Includes stories and recipes from 21 diverse, award-winning and bestselling authors from across North America. - The book explores themes such as systemic racism, white fragility, cultural capital and the interconnection of culture and food. - The Antiracist Kitchen is timely, after the increased incidents of anti-Black, anti-Asian, anti-Indigenous and Islamophobic hate and discrimination. - Solution-based approach to antiracism and celebration of cultural differences through sharing stories and recipes. - The author has published several nonfiction titles. She's also an elementary school teacher, and in 2018 she was named one of Canada's Black writers to watch by CBC Books. - Includes a foreword by Ainara Alleyne, the 13-year-old bookstagrammer and creator of the Ainara's Bookshelf Web series who is passionate about representation and diverse characters. "I give The Antiracist Kitchen five foodie stars for providing nutritional healing through inherited recipes that will satisfy more than physical hunger. This unique cookbook should be in every library and pantry!" "This beautiful collection of stories and recipes will warm both hearts and bellies for generations to come." "Nadia Hohn has done something incredible: she has taken our collective love of food and transformed it into a cultural and educational experience in anti-racism. What's beautiful about this book are the stories and the simplicity. It's not about elegant ingredients or elaborate menus. The Antiracist Kitchen teaches deeply profound lessons on self-love, discrimination and social struggles through a series of personal, intimate stories. Sometimes food is the lesson, other times food is the messenger. What you get out of this anthology, however, is a clear picture of what it means to belong and how not belonging can severely impact our lives." "Some of these stories will make you laugh, and some will make you cry. But all of them will bring you together in the kitchen." Andrea L. Rogers is Cherokee. She grew up in Tulsa, OK, but now lives in Fayetteville, AR, where she is enjoying being a student again, spending time outside and wishing she had more time to make art and cookies. Her three wonderful kids are the best things in her life. Her writing for children includes the book Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story and the story "The Ballad of Maggie Wilson," which appeared in Ancestor Approved: I