Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


john egerton

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “john egerton
Skip side bar filters
  • Dishes and Beverages of the Old South

    Until its reissue in 1988 with the help of renowned southern culture scholar John Egerton, Dishes and Beverages of the Old South lingered as a rare text on southern foodways. Now, in its third edition, and with a new foreword by Sheri Castle, this pathfinding cookbook—one of the first to be written in a narrative style—is available to a new generation of southern foodies and amateur chefs. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southern Food

    At Home, On the Road, In History

    by John Egerton ...
    This lively, handsomely illustrated, first-of-its-kind book celebrates the food of the American South in all its glorious variety—yesterday, today, at home, on the road, in history. It brings us the story of Southern cooking; a guide for more than 200 restaurants in eleven Southern states; a compilation of more than 150 time-honored Southern foods; a wonderfully useful annotated bibliography of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Speak Now Against The Day

    The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South

    by John Egerton ...
    Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a “separate but equal” division of the races.The voices of the dissenters, although present throughout the South’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Word on Words

    The Best of John Seigenthaler's Interviews

    For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most interesting and most important writers of our time. These in-depth exchanges revealed much about the writers who appeared on his show and gave a glimpse into their creative processes. Seigenthaler was a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • And Still I Rise

    Black America Since MLK

    The companion book to the PBS series—a timeline and chronicle of the fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise explores a half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of Black Power, the United States has had a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Detroit

    A People's History of Self-Determination

    by Herb Boyd ...
    NAACP Image Award Finalist: "Boyd's riveting new history…turns an oft-caricatured community into a world of actual, struggling human beings."—Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and MeA Michigan Notable Books HonoreeIn this book, the author of Baldwin's Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—in "a blend of memoir, love letter, history, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The One

    The Life and Music of James Brown

    by RJ Smith ...
    The definitive biography of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, with fascinating findings on his life as a Civil Rights activist, an entrepreneur, and the most innovative musician of our timePlaying 350 shows a year at his peak, with more than forty Billboard hits, James Brown was a dazzling showman who transformed American music. His life offstage was just as vibrant, and until now no biographer ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Taste of Country Cooking

    The 30th Anniversary Edition of a Great Southern Classic Cookbook

    by Edna Lewis ...
    In this classic Southern cookbook, the “first lady of Southern cooking” (NPR) shares the seasonal recipes from a childhood spent in a small farming community settled by freed slaves. She shows us how to recreate these timeless dishes in our own kitchens—using natural ingredients, embracing the seasons, and cultivating community. With a preface by Judith Jones and foreword by Alice Waters.With ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Once in a Great City

    A Detroit Story

    “A fascinating political, racial, economic, and cultural tapestry” (Detroit Free Press), Once in a Great City is a tour de force from David Maraniss about the quintessential American city at the top of its game: Detroit in 1963.Detroit in 1963 is on top of the world. The city’s leaders are among the most visionary in America: grandson of the first Ford; Henry Ford II; Motown’s founder Berry Gordy; ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Home Cooking

    by Laurie Colwin ...
    Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, the acclaimed author of Happy All the Time delivers a beloved cookbook manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. • With a foreword by Ruth Reichl.“As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the humble hotplate of her one-room apartment to the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Undefeated

    Illustrated by Kadir Nelson ...
    **Winner of the 2020 Caldecott MedalA 2020 Newbery Honor BookWinner of the 2020 Coretta Scott King Illustrator AwardThe Newbery Award-winning author of THE CROSSOVER pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree.**Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Big Book of Senior Moments

    Humorous Jokes and Anecdotes as a Reminder That We All Forget

    Old age isn’t for wimps, nor is it for those without a sense of humor. The Big Book of Senior Moments is chock full of those small blunders, momentary lapses, and misplaced keys that happen to all of us. Humor might not help you remember your cat’s name, but it will certainly make you feel less alone!Did you know that Albert Einstein once searched frantically for his misplaced train ticket because ... Read more

    $12.99 USD