Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South Savor the South Cookbooks and photographs compiled by the

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and Native American influences

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Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South Savor the South Cookbooks and photographs compiled by theAuthor: Rebecca Sharpless While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems. Rebecca Sharpless here weaves a brilliant chronicle, vast in perspective and entertaining in detail, revealing how three global food traditions Indigenous American, European, and African collided with and merged in the economies, cultures, and foodways of the