Foodways
- ISBN-10
- 0807858404
- ISBN-13
- 9780807858400
- Category
- Cooking, American
- Pages
- 310
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Author
- John T. Edge
Description
Zora Neale Hurston employs food as a descriptive trope. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie, the protagonist, said of her husband, "Ah hates the way his head is so long one way and so flat on de sides and dat pone uh fat back uh his ...
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