My America: Recipes from a Young Black Chef: A CookbookA cookbook celebrating the food of the African diaspora from Nigeria and Ethiopia to the Bronx, the Caribbean, and the American South, from the James Beard Award winning author of Notes from a Young Black Chef

and has been featured on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and CNN's Cuomo Prime Time

James's lush

each with a corresponding active telephone number where she has recorded excerpts of her poems

puts Will the book

descendants of Africapicked up their souls--all that they owned--leaving shackles where they fell on the ground

Pushcart--nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant

It's a Southern cookbook like you've never seen before

Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape

resistance

to everyone's surprise

do your best

but to themselves