Pig tails 'n' breadfruit
Subtitle: a Barbadian memoir
By: Austin Clarke
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Ian Randle
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Kingston, Jamaica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789766378820
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Canadian Authors; Biography; Food habits; Barbadian Cooking; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Other titles: Pig tails and breadfruit :; Pigtails 'n' breadfruit : rituals of slave food : a Barbadian memoir.; Pigtails 'n' breadfruit : a culinary memoir.
Description: "Austin Clarke grew up in Barbados, enveloped in the heavenly smells of women cooking. From them, he learned how to prepare the beloved dishes of the island ... He shares his recipes and reminisces about the 'slave' food that was so much a part of his life. Whether it is a story about the village butcher whose qualifications were somewhat suspect, or finding a sure-fire route to a woman's love through her stomach, or searching the American South for fried chicken with none other than Norman Mailer, Austin Clarke will make you hungry for the 'hot cuisine' and spirit of the island on which he was born"--Publisher's description.
Notes: "Anniversary edition"--Cover.

Originally published 1999, with varying subtitles: a culinary memoir (New York : New Press), or : rituals of slave food : a Barbadian memoir (Toronto : Random House).