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Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness

byAshanté M. Reese

Anthropologist Ashanté M. Reese explores Black foodways through the everyday acts of gathering, feeding, remembering, and caring. She moves beyond recipes and celebrated culinary figures to examine kitchens, gardens, markets, tables, neighborhoods, and the relationships through which nourishment becomes possible. Personal reflection and cultural analysis reveal how food carries migration, grief, pleasure, labor, resistance, and collective memory. The book treats gathering as both a practice and a political imagination, showing how Black communities create abundance and belonging even within systems that have repeatedly restricted access to land, health, time, and resources.

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

2026-04-14

Format

Hardcover

Pages

160

ISBN

9781324076469