Food crops, medicinal plants, and the Atlantic slave trade / Robert L. Hall -- Soul food as cultural creation / William C. Whit -- Excavating the south's African American food history / Anne Yentsch -- From fiction to foodways: working at the intersections of African American literary and culinary studies / Doris Witt -- Chickens and chains: using African American foodways to understand black identities / Psyche Williams-Forson -- Recipes for respect: black hospitality entrepreneurs before World War I / Rafia Zafar -- Recipes for history: the national council of negro women's five historical cookbooks / Anne L. Bower.