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title: "Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine"
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# Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine

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- **What is this?** Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine by kelley fanto deetz
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## Customer Reviews

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    Timely and Relevant
  

*by M***O on Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2018*

Timely and extremely relevant to the current cultural and political climate. A slim, attractive volume – I only wish there was more! In the deft grasp of Dr. Deetz, the magnifying glass used to examine the past becomes a mirror reflecting our practices and attitudes today. Supported by rich and eclectic primary resources, Deetz skillfully traces the thread of a culture obscured. Although the overall tone is academic, the format remains as accessible to the layman as it is familiar to the scholar.As a proud Virginian of many generations, I can only describe the journey through Bound to the Fire as one of self-discovery. BTTF reframes my understanding of my own family traditions, re-shaping the landscape with new perspective of the architectural features and the patterns of living – and foodways – in my community. I feel closer to my own past through hearinng the stories of previously uncredited artisans, laborers, and hosts. Ardently held notions of Southern food culture, etiquette, and hospitality take on a new richness and texture derived from authentic understanding deployed in Deetz’s paradigm shifting narrative - that Black history and culture *is* American history and culture, from the very beginning.I await hungrily to devour Deetz’s next missive, confident she will continue to lift the veil of collective memory and reveal more of our own selves.

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    A sensitive treatment of an often forgotten aspect of slavery ...
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2018*

A sensitive treatment of an often forgotten aspect of slavery.  Most persons assume that cooks were part of a privileged elite within the system that evolved in those states were slavery was legal.  Dr. Deetz has written a work that all students of American history must read; it will change forever how we view "The Old South."  I am only sorry that it is not longer!

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    The Originators of Southern Cuisine
  

*by W***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2018*

Enlightening and educational book about a subject that is overlooked in the discussion about enslavement. The cooks on the plantations worked as hard as those working in the fields. Great job done by the author in exploring another aspect of life on a plantation.

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