... and conservative) and utilize the dominant discourses to create spaces of dissent and strategic acquiescence to the logics of capital ever-present in our food systems. Keywords: Black women and food, cookbooks, African American, foodways, Black women chefs, food and power, food shaming, food voice RESEARCH ESSAY...

...john martin taylor Hoppin’ John Taylor unearths the meaning of the mysterious word “vigareets” from the nineteenth-century cookbook What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking , previously thought to be the first cookbook written by an African American. Originally published in 1881, the book...