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The Way Home: A Celebration of Sea Islands Food and Family with Over 100 Recipes
by Kardea Brown

    Publication Date: Oct 25, 2022
    List Price: $34.99
    Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780063085602
    Imprint: Amistad
    Publisher: HarperCollins
    Parent Company: News Corp

    Hardcover Description:

    The breakout star of Food Network’s hit show Delicious Miss Brown celebrates the Gullah/Geechee culinary traditions of her family in this spectacular cookbook featuring 125 original mouthwatering recipes and gorgeous four-color photos.

    In April 2015, Kardea Brown made a leap of faith, quitting her job as a social worker in New Jersey to pursue a career in the food industry. She opened the New Gullah Supper Club, a restaurant and social destination centered around the food she grew up eating at her grandmother’s house on South Carolina’s Wadmalaw Island.

    After an appearance on Food Network, Kardea caught the attention of executives at the cooking channel and over the course of nearly four hardworking years became a star—sparring with chefs on hit shows like Beat Bobby Flay and hosting Cupcake Championship. Viewers fell in love with her Southern warmth, love of family, and awe-inspiring New Gullah meals, and Kardea quickly landed her own show, the top-rated Delicious Miss Brown.

    In this, her first cookbook, Kardea shares her multi-generational “passed down” recipes and innovative takes on Gullah classics with home cooks everywhere. “Gullah” and “GeeChee” refer to a distinct group of African Americans living in the coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia who have preserved much of their West African language, culture, and cuisine. Untitled is an unabashed love letter to her family’s roots, packed with dishes that combine West African herbs, spices, and grains with traditional Southern cooking. “Gullah people laid the foundation for Southern cooking. Before farm-to-table was a fad, it was what Gullah people did,” Kardea explains. “I want to show the world that soul food is not monolithic. It’s so much more than fried chicken and vegetables cooked in pork. It’s seasonal, fresh and delicious! ”

    Filled with more than 100 mouth-watering recipes for starters, main courses, sides, desserts, and more, Untitled brings a taste of the Lowcountry South home, offering flavor-packed dishes everyone will enjoy such as:

    She-Crab Soup

    Seafood Potato Salad

    Crabcake Benedict

    Smoked Pasta Salad

    Savory Bread Pudding

    Peach Dump Cake

    Blood Orange Salmon

    Smothered Chicken

    Low Country Spaghetti

    Sweet Potato Cheesecake

    Kardea flavors her recipes with cherished family anecdotes, memories, and helpful tips. A perfect blend of the modern and the traditional, Untitled honors her proud heritage and shows off her own signature class and sass. The result is a marvelous, big-hearted collection of recipes and stories that will nourish you, body and soul.