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Experience beer-infused soul food recipes from the founder of Harlem Brewing Company, Celeste Beatty, the first Black woman to own a brewery in the United States.

Through her over twenty years of brewing beer and growing her business, Celeste Beatty has developed relationships with the best and brightest in the food and beverage industries and is ready to share her own soul food recipes with a beer-infused twist. Interspersed with small-bite reflections from her journey in the making of Harlem Brewing Company, Harlem Brew Soul features:

• Over 80 recipes infused with lager, stout, IPA, and wheat beers (food and cocktails)
• Historical notes on African brewing history
• A collection of family stories about soul food and homebrewing
• Vibrant illustrations celebrating the NYC neighborhood of Harlem
• And much more!

Harlem Brew Soul taps into the rich history, heritage, traditions, rituals, experiences, and codes of African American life, cuisine, culture, music, and, yes, beer!

It was an innocent Halloween party until a photographer arrived and later posted the images on the Internet. When the world saw what went on behind closed doors of wealthy and privileged frat boys, the campus erupted and so to did the city. No one could have imagined that the deplorable activities, seen in the pictures, could have taken place in the twenty-first century. What started as a party, quickly evolves into a civil war among various factions of the administration, students and outsiders. A small group of black men descend upon the town of Auburn to negotiate retribution for offended black students while a small underground army lurks in the shadows waiting for the chance to riot. The administration makes several attempts to make the problems disappear. But the number of protesters, calling for swift and harsh consequences, grows every hour. None more surprising than a group of star athletes who threaten to bring the entire city to its knees by foiling the biggest sporting event of the year. Based on a true story, An Auburn Autumn is a fast-paced and passionate story about what happens when power, class, race, money and big college football collide in a brewing and disastrous perfect storm that sweeps across the plains of a small Alabama town.