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Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking not an ostrich " (a copyeditor's term thatJubilee is the follow up to The Jemima Code, an annotated bibliography of African American cookbooks. Alongside recipes for pork chops smothered in caper lemon sauce and hot toddies, Toni Tipton Martin often provides a vintage version clipped from an old cookbook. Few writers are better at using recipes as a way to look at the past. Jubilee is a celebration of African American cuisine right now, in all of its abundance and variety, and a vital