Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island Binding:Hardcover An IndieNext Pick

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Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island Binding:Hardcover An IndieNext PickA New York Times bestseller and NPR Best Book of the Year, this is the first major Gullah Geechee cookbook. Emily Meggett, the matriarch of Edisto Island, shares her recipes and the history of an essential American community. Emily Meggett was a celebrated Gullah Geechee chef and community leader from Edisto Island, South Carolina. Her rich culinary heritage shines through this beautiful cookbook, published shortly before her passing in her ninetieth