From the Book - Paperback edition.
1. Out of Africa : foods, techniques, and ceremonies of the mother continent
2. Sea changes : enslavement, the middle passage, and the migrating tastes of Africa
3. The power of three : arrivals, encounters, and culinary connections
4. The tightening vice [i.e. vise] : indenture to enslavement and the African hand in the food of Colonial America
5. In sorrow's kitchen : hog meat, hominy, and the Africanizing of the palate of the South
6. City food, South and North : caterers, cala vendors, and the continuing of African culinary traditions
O freedom! : jubilee jubilations
7. Westward ho! : migrations, innovations, and a growing culinary divide
8. Movin' on up! : resilience, resistance, and entrepreneurs large and small
9. We shall not be moved : sit-ins, soul food, and increasing culinary diversity
10. We are the world : making it in an expanding Black world and joining an unbroken African culinary circle