Research Catalog

Title

Longthroat memoirs : soups, sex and Nigerian taste buds / Yemisí Aríbisálà.

Author

Aribisala, Yemisi, 1973-

Publication

Abuja ; London : Cassava Republic Press, 2016.

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Details

Description

339 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Longthroat Memoirs presents a sumptuous menu of essays about Nigerian food, lovingly presented by the nation's top epicurean writer. As well as a mouth-watering appraisal of the cultural politics and erotics of Nigerian cuisine, it is also a series of love letters to the Nigerian palate. From innovations in soup, fish as aphrodisiac and the powerful seductions of the yam, Longthroat Memoirs examines the complexities, the peculiarities, the meticulousness, and the tactility of Nigerian food. Nigeria has a strong culture of oral storytelling, of myth creation, of imaginative traversing of worlds. Longthroat Memoirs collates some of those stories into an irresistible soup-pot, expressed in the flawless love language of appetite and nourishment. A sensuous testament on why, when and how Nigerians eat the food they love to eat; this book is a welcome addition to the global dining table of ideas.

Subject

• Cooking, Nigerian
• Food > Nigeria > Anecdotes
• Nigerians > Social life and customs
• Food
• Nigeria

Genre/Form

• Cookbooks.
• Anecdotes.

Note

• Essays about Nigerian cuisine.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 340).

Call Number

ReCAP 20-3209

ISBN

• 9781911115267
• 191111526X
• 9781911115274 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1016156676

Author

Aribisala, Yemisi, 1973- author.

Title

Longthroat memoirs : soups, sex and Nigerian taste buds / Yemisí Aríbisálà.

Publisher

Abuja ; London : Cassava Republic Press, 2016.

Edition

Second edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 340).

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 20-3209