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Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen
Named a Best Cookbook of 2022 by Barnes & Noble
Named a Best Cookbook of Fall 2022 by Food & Wine, Forbes, Publishers Weekly, The Takeout, and more
"Featuring vibrant recipes, interviews, art, and photography, this is a compelling culinary manifesto about the nature of Black food. . . . Ghetto Gastro offers an awakening of what Black food was, is, and can become while demonstrating the sheer joy and creativity Black communities generate. With waves of crunch, heat, flavor, and umami, this Bronx culinary collective also inspires discussions about race, history, and long-standing food inequality."
-Food & Wine
Knowledge Is Power
Part cookbook. Part manifesto. Created with big Bronx energy, Black Power Kitchen combines 75 mostly plant-based, layered-with-flavor recipes with immersive storytelling, diverse voices, and striking images and photographs that celebrate Black food and Black culture, and inspire larger conversations about race, history, food inequality, and how eating well can be a pathway to personal freedom and self-empowerment.
Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen is the first book from the Bronx-based culinary collective, and it does for the cookbook what Ghetto Gastro has been doing for the food world in general-disrupt, expand, reinvent, and stamp it with their unique point of view. Ghetto Gastro sits at the intersection of food, music, fashion, visual arts, and social activism. They've partnered with Nike and Beats by Dre, designed cookware sold through Williams-Sonoma and Target, and won a Future of Gastronomy award from the World's 50 Best.
Now they bring their multidisciplinary approach to a cookbook, with nourishing recipes that are layered with waves of crunch, heat, flavor, and umami. They are born of the authors' cultural heritage and travels-from riffs on family dishes like Strong Back Stew and memories of Uptown with Red Velvet Cake to neighborhood icons like Triboro Tres Leches and Chopped Stease (their take on the classic bodega chopped cheese) to recipes redolent of the African diaspora like Banana Leaf Fish and King Jaffe Jollof. All made with a sense of swag.
Named a Best Cookbook of Fall 2022 by Food & Wine, Forbes, Publishers Weekly, The Takeout, and more
"Featuring vibrant recipes, interviews, art, and photography, this is a compelling culinary manifesto about the nature of Black food. . . . Ghetto Gastro offers an awakening of what Black food was, is, and can become while demonstrating the sheer joy and creativity Black communities generate. With waves of crunch, heat, flavor, and umami, this Bronx culinary collective also inspires discussions about race, history, and long-standing food inequality."
-Food & Wine
Knowledge Is Power
Part cookbook. Part manifesto. Created with big Bronx energy, Black Power Kitchen combines 75 mostly plant-based, layered-with-flavor recipes with immersive storytelling, diverse voices, and striking images and photographs that celebrate Black food and Black culture, and inspire larger conversations about race, history, food inequality, and how eating well can be a pathway to personal freedom and self-empowerment.
Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen is the first book from the Bronx-based culinary collective, and it does for the cookbook what Ghetto Gastro has been doing for the food world in general-disrupt, expand, reinvent, and stamp it with their unique point of view. Ghetto Gastro sits at the intersection of food, music, fashion, visual arts, and social activism. They've partnered with Nike and Beats by Dre, designed cookware sold through Williams-Sonoma and Target, and won a Future of Gastronomy award from the World's 50 Best.
Now they bring their multidisciplinary approach to a cookbook, with nourishing recipes that are layered with waves of crunch, heat, flavor, and umami. They are born of the authors' cultural heritage and travels-from riffs on family dishes like Strong Back Stew and memories of Uptown with Red Velvet Cake to neighborhood icons like Triboro Tres Leches and Chopped Stease (their take on the classic bodega chopped cheese) to recipes redolent of the African diaspora like Banana Leaf Fish and King Jaffe Jollof. All made with a sense of swag.
Editorial Reviews
"Black Power Kitchen is as much a cooking manual as it is a manifesto of Ghetto Gastro's decade-long mission: Seeing eating as simultaneously a form of survival and a source of luxury, Black Power Kitchen frames food as a form of love, but also a weapon - one that has long been wielded against communities like Ghetto Gastro's in the Bronx."
-Eater
"Described as The Joy of Cooking meets the Bible, Black Power Kitchen is like nothing you've ever read before."
-Financial Times
"Featuring vibrant recipes, interviews, art, and photography, this is a compelling culinary manifesto about the nature of Black food. . . . Ghetto Gastro offers an awakening of what Black food was, is, and can become while demonstrating the sheer joy and creativity Black communities generate. With waves of crunch, heat, flavor, and umami, this Bronx culinary collective also inspires discussions about race, history, and long-standing food inequality."
-Food & Wine
"It's teeming with vibrant photography, interviews and personal stories, plus 75 recipes. . . . Expect dishes with big flavors and textures, like the Strong Back Stew and King Jaffe Jollof, and a plant-based reimagining of chopped cheese."
-Forbes
"A highly visual manifesto for living and eating to stimulate the mind, body, and heart, this book promotes Black excellence through recipes, art, and thought-provoking text."
-Essence
"They marry food, music, fashion, visual arts and social activism into a beautiful book that is perfectly suited for the coffee table or the kitchen countertop."
-The Root
"Ghetto Gastro serves up vibrant recipes, interviews, paintings, and photographs. . . . Meals served up with ideals make this a dynamic and delicious cultural celebration."
-Publishers Weekly, Top 10 Cooking Food Books for Fall 2022
"Deeply absorbing. . . . A wonderfully written and beautifully produced book. In keeping with Ghetto Gastro's multidisciplinary approach, this volume will offer readers an engaging excursion into food history and culture, with...
-Eater
"Described as The Joy of Cooking meets the Bible, Black Power Kitchen is like nothing you've ever read before."
-Financial Times
"Featuring vibrant recipes, interviews, art, and photography, this is a compelling culinary manifesto about the nature of Black food. . . . Ghetto Gastro offers an awakening of what Black food was, is, and can become while demonstrating the sheer joy and creativity Black communities generate. With waves of crunch, heat, flavor, and umami, this Bronx culinary collective also inspires discussions about race, history, and long-standing food inequality."
-Food & Wine
"It's teeming with vibrant photography, interviews and personal stories, plus 75 recipes. . . . Expect dishes with big flavors and textures, like the Strong Back Stew and King Jaffe Jollof, and a plant-based reimagining of chopped cheese."
-Forbes
"A highly visual manifesto for living and eating to stimulate the mind, body, and heart, this book promotes Black excellence through recipes, art, and thought-provoking text."
-Essence
"They marry food, music, fashion, visual arts and social activism into a beautiful book that is perfectly suited for the coffee table or the kitchen countertop."
-The Root
"Ghetto Gastro serves up vibrant recipes, interviews, paintings, and photographs. . . . Meals served up with ideals make this a dynamic and delicious cultural celebration."
-Publishers Weekly, Top 10 Cooking Food Books for Fall 2022
"Deeply absorbing. . . . A wonderfully written and beautifully produced book. In keeping with Ghetto Gastro's multidisciplinary approach, this volume will offer readers an engaging excursion into food history and culture, with...
