A USA Today “Essential Cookbook by Black Chefs and Authors” Presenting over 100 mouth-watering recipes for Southern soul food favorites that’ll be the hit of any Sunday supper—from the beloved YouTuber, home cook, and founder of I Heart Recipes. Learn to cook comfort food the way Mom used to! Here, Rosie Mayes shares all the secrets of southern classics like fried chicken, mashed potatoes, collard greens, and mac and cheese—plus soulful twists like Sweet Potato Biscuits and Fried Ribs. I Heart Soul Food features over 100 recipes, all organized by meal, including 30 fan favorites, 70 never-before-seen recipes, and 90 photographs. • Stick-to-Your-Ribs Breakfast Favorites: Blueberry Cornbread Waffles and Shrimp; Andouille Sausage and Grits • Main Dishes: Smothered Chicken; Oxtail Stew • Sides: Baked Candied Yams; Soul Food Collard Greens; Sweet Cornbread. • Drinks and Desserts: Peach Cobbler; Pralines; Sweet Iced Tea. Authentic, mouthwatering, and featuring easy-to-find ingredients, these recipes are like love on a plate—perfect Sunday suppers and celebrations. “Rosie is my go-to when it comes to recipes.” —Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Hate U Give

“Rosie is my go-to when it comes to recipes.” —Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Hate U Give and On the Come Up Rosie Mayes, author of I Heart Soul Food, and creator of I Heart Recipes, serves up 100+ amped-up, super soul food recipes—including fan favorites—guaranteed to bring her cousins joy! If I Heart Soul Food left you satisfied yet also hungry for more, you're going to love Super Soul Food with Cousin Rosie! Here, Rosie shares more of her comfort soul food dishes, starting with traditional southern and creole favorites and jazzing them up with her own "special sauce." Rosie organizes these recipes by type of meal and adds in side dishes, breads, drinks to sip on, as well as a chapter of over-the-top desserts that make her fans swoon! Included are some of her most sought-after fan favorites (only available online until now), including: Southern Baked Macaroni and Cheese Casserole Seafood Boil with Creole Garlic Sauce Red Velvet Biscuits This is Rosie at her best, putting satisfying, soulful spins on classic, comfort southern and creole dishes, and also including her best loved fan favorites guaranteed to please old and new fans alike.

A personal and cultural exploration of Barack Obama as black president, black icon, and black folk hero

Chef Todd Richards, the James Beard Award–winning author of Soul, is your guide to exploring West African diaspora cooking in the Americas, spanning history from the slave trade through the Great Migration, with over 100 mouthwatering recipes and illuminating narratives. Across centuries and continents, the influence of West African food and culture draws a delicious family tree whose branches stretch into the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States from coast to coast—from the deep South to the Wild West and all the roads in between. In this sprawling and evocative cookbook, acclaimed chef Todd Richards traces these shared roots and the journeys that connect them. Researched and informative, this book takes you beyond the recipes, exploring the history behind these traditional dishes—and the people who created them—and how peoples of the West African diaspora shaped and changed American history as we know it today. Including vibrant documentary photography, features throughout highlight interviews with chefs and luminaries, additional notes on ingredients and historical context, and expert chef’s tips. At the heart of the book are Chef Todd’s inspired recipes, including: Peanut and Mustard Greens Soup with Ginger and Tomato Haitian Oxtail with Beef Broth and Pikliz Grilled Shrimp Mojo with Black Bean Puree and Toasted Rice Grilled Quail Tacos with Mole Poblano Scallion and Smoked Cheddar Cornbread Fritters with Red Pepper Honey Peach Cobbler with Butter Pecan Ice Cream Buffalo Style Frog Legs or Chicken Wings with French Onion Ranch Dressing 7-Up Cake Chicago-Style Beach Spaghetti BBQ Shrimp with Garlicy French Bread and Parsley Butter Beignets with Espresso Powdered Sugar From page to glorious page, Todd’s deep knowledge and vivid storytelling remind us that cooking and sharing food is a joyous way to connect with history, culture, and each other.

Susan Weston Frisina was born and raised in Northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. In her middle teen years, Susan made her profession of faith in Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. Her spiritual development began when she became part of the young youth movement with Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa and he study under Pastor Chuck Smith. While attending college in middle Tennessee, Susan met her husband Michael, who was serving in the United States Army with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. She then began a twenty year journey in support of her husband's military career raising three Army Angels along the way. Throughout their military travels, Susan remained active in teaching in both women's and children's ministries all over the United States. Susan has taken a collection of life experiences from her spiritual crucible that include childhood, education, family, and ministry encounters to weave together short stories that convey both life and spiritual insight to living a consistent and fulfilled walk with God. Serving alongside her husband who now pastors a Calvary Chapel in Columbia, South Carolina, Susan is an avid Bible teacher and speaker at women's conferences and now adds this book to her ministry repertoire.

Born and raised in Switzerland, Lilian Marton immigrated to Canada as a teenager and later graduated cum laude from Concordia University in Montreal with a degree in journalism and minor in cinematography. Now living in Toronto with her husband, in her middle years, she created her exuberant clown persona Funky Lily but always kept the written words flowing. After years of writing for the university or the Ontario government or corporations, she now specializes in short stories and essays, even free verse.

An examination of the culinary origins of African American soul food finds the unique cuisine, rooted in the American South, is a mix of European, Asian, African, and Amerindian food cultures.

This book examines current diets to help you make decisions about your eating style as well as taking a look at sleep patterns in association with our overall health. Health and physical education warrant a bigger role in our children’s overall health and well being. One of the chapters is entitled: Games People Play, which focuses on games you played growing up. Will Shelton is deeply concerned that some neighborhoods, including parks are too violent for youth to play in. He presents some innovative ideas that can help curtail violence in neighborhoods. “We need to bring back pride as a core value in some neighborhoods so youth have a vested interest in their respective neighborhoods, by creating jobs, safe parks and recreational centers, better teachers, principals, other school staff, school curriculum, mentorship programs, rites of passage programs, violence prevention programs, better training of police and dramatically stop how guns, drugs and other weapons enter neighborhoods.” ~Will Shelton Will Shelton’s book Investing in Your Health... You’ll Love the Return is an insightful and innovative look at our personal health status and how we can improve it. It examines why we eat the foods we select. It answers the following questions and so much more: What can we specifically do to defeat the #1 Killer of Americans using empirical data? Is healthcare a right or privilege? What are the factors that are affecting our health? What cellular “Master Switch” can be turned on by eating the right kinds of foods to prevent diabetes, obesity, heart disease and other diseases? How do you unlock the subconscious mind to health, wealth and contentment? Why Financial Principles are a requirement for total health happiness? Why is generational health and wealth a vital legacy, in terms of passing the Torch of Health and Wealth to this generation of youth? How does the Glycemic Index help lower sugar intake? How can Stress Busters techniques and activities help with stress? You are a cornucopia of endless treasure. Now is the time to claim your treasure by Investing In Your Health... You'll Love the Returns!

Never before has so much weight been placed on mindfulness, self-care and mental health. By embracing this empowering guide to self-discovery by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Ban Breathnach, you'll be joining the millions of people giving themselves permission to take time out, simplify their lives and see beauty in little things surrounding us. Perfect for readers of Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. 'This book is pure joy to read' -- ***** Reader review 'Thought provoking and inspiring; a comforting read' -- ***** Reader review 'Interesting, inspiring and comforting' -- ***** Reader review 'This book has given me such a sense of peace and inspiration' -- ***** Reader review 'This is one of the best books that I have ever read!' -- ***** Reader review **************************************************************************** By providing a meditation for each day of the year, Simple Abundance illuminates our journey of self-discovery and shows us that simplicity does not imply doing without - true simplicity illuminates our lives from within. Teaching us how to reorder our priorities, this enduringly positive handbook for living helps readers: - carve out time for the personal pursuits that bring contentment - savour the joy of simple pleasures - restore serenity to daily endeavours - delight in the everyday elegies of home and garden - nurture creativity - nourish the imagination Simple Abundance is a book of daily meditations, quotations, poems, extracts and reflections - perfect for those who want to create a simple, more abundant way of living by bringing more simplicity, harmony, beauty, order and joy into their lives.

Heart Sense is a compelling combination of research and "stranger than fiction" true stories illustrating that most people need to get out of their heads and back into their hearts. Paula Reeves tells how, time after time, successful heart transplant patients have undergone personality and style shifts as well as memory transfers, proving that the heart is not just a muscle. The real beauty of Heart Sense is that Reeves explains the heart's intelligence and teaches us simple exercises that help us tap into that intelligence and improve our lives. With this groundbreaking work, learn to listen to your seventh sense -- the wisdom of the heart. Book jacket.