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Finally, abundant thanks are due Susan Ginsburg, my agent, who worked tirelessly to make this pig kosher, and her assistant, Bethany, who on paper and on the phone always recognized my voice, and newly arrived Carrie, who reminds me “no worries.” To all of the team at Bloomsbury—publisher George Gibson, who paired me with Kathy Belden; Mike O’Connor, who understood; Sabrina Farber, who holds the piggy’s purse strings; Peter Miller and Jonathan Kroberger, who got the word out about the pig; Laura Phillips, who kept the pig moving; my appreciative copyeditor, Maureen Klier; and especially Kathy Belden, editor become friend, who believed in me and in this project even when I doubted myself. She encouraged me daily, corrected and counseled me almost as often, and in the end got this little piggy to market!
It seemed at times during the three-year period that I spent writing this book that I’d dropped out of my own life—
To those who missed me—I’m back.
To those who sustained me—I am more grateful than I can ever express.
To those who have appeared or re-appeared along the way—Welcome to my world!
FURTHER READING
The following is a by-no-means exhaustive listing of some of the works I consulted in writing High on the Hog. A more complete listing is posted on my Web site www.africooks.com.
Abrahams, Roger D. Singing the Master: The Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
Banks, Katherine Bell, with Robert C. Hayden. William E.B. Du Bois: Family and Friendship: Another Side of the Man. Littleton, MA: Tapestry Press, 2004.
Bascom, Lionel, ed. A Renaissance in Harlem: Lost Essays of the WPA, by Ralph Ellison, Dorothy West, and Other Voices of a Generation. Cambridge, MA: Bascom, 2007.
Beckles, Hilary McD., and Verene A. Shepherd. Trading Souls: Europe’s Transatlantic Trade in Africans. Kingston: Ian Randle, 2007.
Berlin, Ira, et al. Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War. NewYork: New Press, 1992.
Berlin, Ira, and Leslie M. Harris, eds. Slavery in New York. New York: New Press, 2005.
Berzok, Linda Murray. American Indian Food. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005.
Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Boilat, Abbé David. Esquisses Sénégalaises. 1853. Dakar: Karthala, 1984.
Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Bower, Anne L. African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Boyd, Herb, ed. The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York’s Most Famous Neighborhood from the Renaissance Years to the 21st Century. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003.
Buckingham, J. S. A Journey Through the Slave States of North America. 1842. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2006.
Burnside, Madeline, and Rosemarie Robotham. Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Campbell, Edward D. C. Jr., and Kym S. Rice, eds. Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South. Richmond and Charlottesville, VA: Museum of the Confederacy and the University Press of Virginia, 1991.
Carney, Judith. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Carney, Judith, and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff. In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Carretta, Vincent. Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-made Man. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005.
Chesnais, Robert. Introduction. In Louis XIV: Le Code Noir. Paris: L’Esprit Frappeur, 1998.
Clinton, Catherine. Tara Revisited: Women, War and the Plantation Legend. New York: Abbeville, 1995.
Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of Over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times.