Mama's Tea Cakes: 101 Soul Food Desserts by Wilbert Jones (Author) Publisher: Citadel (2000) ISBN-10: 1559724641 ISBN-13: : 9781559724647 Hardcover: 122 pages Item Weight: 10.4 ounces Dimensions: 6.4 x 0.64 x 8.38 inches A mouthwatering, fully illustrated, and easy-to-follow cookbook offers a new look at traditional African-American desserts, including recipes for delicious cakes, savory pies, tasty cookies, and many other sweet treats. ---------------------------- Soul food is an ethnic cuisine traditionally prepared and eaten by African Americans, originating in the Southern United States. The cuisine originated with the foods that were given to enslaved black people by their white owners on Southern plantations during the Antebellum period; however, it was strongly influenced by the traditional practices of West Africans and Native Americans from its inception. Due to the historical presence of African Americans in the region, soul food is closely associated with the cuisine of the American South although today it has become an easily identifiable and celebrated aspect of mainstream American food culture. The expression "soul food" originated in the mid-1960s, when "soul" was a common word used to describe African-American culture. --------------------------- Traditional Southern soul food desserts are divine, with fruit cobblers, Angel Food cake, buttermilk pie, banana pudding and so much more. Some all-time favorites soul food dessert recipes including peach cobbler, sweet potato pie, pecan pie, red velvet cake, banana pudding, lemon pie, eyc.