Good health doesn't come in a prescription bottle.
In fact, all you need to start feeling better is an open mind, a new
attitude, and this remarkable, one-of-a-kind book. In Like A Natural
Woman, Ziba Kashef, a Senior Editor and Health Writer at Essence
magazine, brings you a comprehensive guide to alternative techniques and
therapies that can put you on the road to wellness. Drawing on her
interviews with a variety of alternative health practitioners, as well as
the time-tested folk remedies of our African ancestors and exciting new
methods that address the unique health issues of black women, she gives
you the tools you need to cope with everything from PMS, weight problems,
and diabetes, to hypertension, Lupus, cancer.
Learn how to:
Ease the discomfort of morning sickness and digestive
problems…with vitamins, supplements, and teas
Shrink fibroids by taking a combination of herbs…and avoid
surgery
Satisfy your taste for soul food…without all the fat and salt
Control the symptoms of menopause…the right diet, exercise, and
soy supplements work wonders
Boost your immune system to fight disease…alternative approaches
like hydrotherapy and acupuncture enhance conventional treatments
Harness the healing power of touch…massage and acupressure are
great for your body—and your spirit
Handle your depression…by replacing prescription drugs with yoga
and meditation
And much more!
It's time to regain control of your body and your
life. Like A Natural Woman takes you on a profound healing journey.
You'll not only feel—and look—like a new woman, but you'll create a sense
of personal balance and well-being that will last a lifetime!
Call 'em swap meets, trade
days, or farmer's markets, they're scoured each week by thousands of
people who buy and sell. And they're listed here alphabetically state by
state, with all the essentials about specialties, size, days and times,
location, and parking. In these pages, too, are wise and witty tips on
how to distinguish trash from treasure, how to bargain effectively, what
to wear even flea market etiquette. Here is a treasure trove of
information whether you're seeking to fulfill your heart's desire or
only the impulse of the moment. Happy hunting!
Most black families have been in the United States
for well over two hundred years, and large family trees have many
branches. As movies such as Soul Food and television shows like The
Cosby Show prove, African Americans strongly value family ties.
Central to cementing these ties is the family reunion. Reunions
preserve the enduring strength of the family. But they are not just food
and drink; they are also a time for reminiscences and play. Gaining the
benefits that come for these get-togethers does not happen by chance. They
take work and planning. Meeting the challenge of organizing a memorable
event can sometimes take all year. What can you do? Where do you turn?
Here's help. How to Plan Your African-American Family Reunion
provides all the guidance you will need to plan a perfect family reunion,
from the simplest to the most elaborate. Mixing personal testimonies and
photographs of actual reunions, this companion offers "secret" family
recipes, suggestions for reunion activities, and mementos, from videos to
T-shirts. There are also savvy tips to help you contact family members via
the Internet and techniques for completing your family tree.
This lively book illustrates not only the fun of these unique family
get-togethers but shows the value they have in keeping families together.
With it you can assure that your family will prove strong and enduring
into future generations.
African American children face many imposing threats in today's
world—academic failure, drugs, gangs, irresponsible sex, and attraction to
crime, among others. For the parents of these children, it takes
knowledge, effort, and caring to effectively deal with such tough issues.
In Smart Parenting For African Americans, Dr. Jeffrey Gardere
presents a savvy, realistic guide for today's black parents. He takes an
honest look at the problems their children face and stresses the
importance of strong parent-child communication for fostering self-esteem.
He also provides the tools parents need to give their sons and
daughters a head start in the earliest years, help them get the most out
of school, and cope with the turbulent teen years. Plus, there's sobering
advice on keeping children safe from sexual predators and on handling a
confrontation with the police.
Here is a sensitive, no-nonsense approach to raising black children
that will show parents how to be a source of support, love and protection
for their kids—giving them the foundation they need to flourish for the
rest of their lives.
Paddle Your Own Boat
10 Rules That Guarantee Career Success
by Vernon L. Williams
A study of
180,000 workers showed that 80 percent of them were dissatisfied
with their job. To make matters worse, few people who dislike their
job will were be very successful at it. This is what I call a
"Double Whammy".
But is it possible to get beyond having the morning break, afternoon
break, payday, holidays and vacation as the only things we find
attractive about our job?
Yes, it is possible. Listen to Thomas Edison's view of work: "I
never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun."
But how does one get from the "Quiet Desperation" that some people
feel about their job to a feeling that is closer to what Edison
describes?
I have done over 20 years of research into what causes people to be
happy and successful in their work. During that time I have
interviewed thousands of people and read the results of interviews
with thousands more. The findings have been consistent. The people
who experience joy and success have 10 things in common.
In this results-oriented book I share those 10 things.
This "How-to"
book is chock full of ideas that you can implement immediately
to help you get more "Bang for your buck".
Below are the topics that the book covers:
Give Yourself a Pay Raise; 21 Ways to Cut Your Taxes; 38 Ways to
Cut Your Food Bill; Cut Your Lunch Bill by $100 per Month; 7
Ways to Get Free Food at Restaurants; 7 Additional Ways to Save
Money When Eating Out; 14 Ways to Have Fun for Less; 17 Ways to
Save Money on Clothes; Save money When Buying Appliance;
Cut Your
Utility Costs; 5 Steps to Improving Your Credit Score; Avoid
Overpaying for Your Dream House; 9 Ways to Save Money When
Looking for A mortgage; Eliminate over $60,000 from Your
Mortgage; Get the Best Refinancing Deal; Pocket an Extra $40 per
Month; Get the Best Deal on a Home Equity Loan; Slash Your
Property Taxes; Cut Your Homeowner Insurance Premium by 24%;
Save Thousands When Buying A New Car; Buy A Used Car (Without
Getting Taken for A Ride);
Cut Your Auto
Insurance Premium by 30%; Increase Your Gas Mileage By 33%; Cut
Your Banking Fees by 50%; Eliminate $1800 in Credit Card Debt;
Cut Your Life Insurance Cost by 30%; 8 Ways to Cut Your Health
Insurance Costs; 16 Ways to Cut Your Prescription Drug Costs;
Cut Hospital Costs; Cut Doctor's Bills; Get A Degree Without
Debt
It's A Sistah Thing
by Monique Brown A Guide to Understanding and Dealing With Fibroids for
African American Women
Author Monique
Brown knows what it’s like to suffer from fibroids. She had her
first surgery at age 26, and continued to struggle with its
symptoms for over five years, until she learned how to take
charge of her condition. In It’s A Sistah Thing, she
provides the latest facts, the best treatments, and valuable
insider tips on coping, along with a step-by-step action plan to
help a sister feel empowered in the choices she makes. Learn
about:
How to tell if you have fibroids—with a self-evaluation
checklist, How to get top medical care, Conventional approaches,
from hysterectomy to myomectomy, Natural remedies, including
herbs and supplements, How food affects your fibroids,
Self-healing through prayer and positive thinking, Sex and
fibroids—the dos and don’ts, Acupuncture, massage therapy, and
other alternative approach.
Filled with examples from real-life African American women,
this comprehensive guide offers sound advice and compassion for
a woman’s problem
The African-American Health Book was
written to inform health care officials and the general public about
diseases--and their treatments--that manifest more severe symptoms in
African-Americans.
When Haitian-born Dr. Valiere Alcena began practicing medicine in
the United States some twenty years ago, he discovered that many diseases
affect African-Americans more virulently than they do whites. His research
encouraged him to arm blacks with a better understanding of these
illnesses'. With this in mind, The African-American Health Book
covers almost every health problem that afflicts modern Americans in
general and the black population in particular. Special attention is given
to cancer, AIDS, heart ailments, asthma, hypertension, emphysema,
diabetes, sickle-cell anemia, and drug and alcohol abuse.
This book's avowed aim is to show how and why diseases occur, what
can be done to prevent them, and how they can be treated. It' outlines
both the responsibility of individuals for taking better care of
themselves and of government for providing the necessary funding for
health care.
Julia Stewart's 1,001 African Names offers a
wide selection of first and last names from more than twenty-five African
countries.
From Abadeet to Zoan, the book offers names for African Americans to
use for their children or to substitute for previously given Western
names. Unlike most Western names, African names, evolving over countless
generations, are loaded with meaning. They might signify when a child is
born, might mark circumstances of the pregnancy or birth, or could
indicate the state of the community in which the child is born.
A practical
guide that shows you how to use the basic resources of every
genealogist to trace your ancestors and more. It takes into account
the deprivation wrought by slavery and its impact on the
African-American family. This book recognizes the importance of oral
history in the rich African and African-American tradition and
explains how you can bridge the gap created when written records are
few or nonexistent.
In this wonderful, lush companion to
her bestseller, The African-American Heritage Cookbook, Carolyn
Quick Tillery again traces the history, heritage, and distinct flavors of
regional African American cooking, concentrating this time on the bounty
of the Virginia coastal region, home of the esteemed Hampton Institute.
More than just a collection of recipes, A Taste
Of Freedom is a tribute to the admirable courage and ambition of the
African Americans who built their future from a school, brick by brick and
dream by dream. Here are the stories of General Samuel C. Armstrong,
Hampton's founder and first principal, who more than once saw his school
face the threat of bankruptcy. Dedicated teachers like Helen W. Ludlow and
an array of former students, who all lend their vivid accounts of life in
the early years at Hampton. And interwoven into this fascinating history
are recipes that are sure to warm the heart and nurture the soul.
Richly illustrated with vintage photographs, and
enhanced by the period poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was closely
associated with the Hampton Institute, A Taste Of Freedom offers
readers a rich remembrance of a very special time and place in African
American history—one in which a once-enslaved people finally had the
freedom to create something of their own, a haven where they could strive
for excellence and self-reliance.
These beautifully illustrated pages cover the entire
year. You'll find suggestions for bountiful Thanksgiving dinners, Kwanzaa
feasts, extravagant year-end holiday parties, Ramadan breakfasts, Carnival
bashes, Easter meals, and homey birthday parties. And there are plenty of
home-decorating tips to help liven up your everyday surroundings to match
the occasion.
In African-American Holiday Traditions,
lifestyle authority Antoinette Broussard brings together her personal
style for presenting food, home decor, and entertaining panache with the
personal recollections of famous African-American women and men. More than
fifty distinguished actresses, writers, public servants, entrepreneurs,
and artists contribute memories of family holiday traditions and some of
their best holiday recipes. Restaurant owner Norma Jean Darden, former
president of The Links, Inc., Patricia Russell-McCloud, actresses Vivica
Fox and Irma P. Hall, and song stylist Nancy Wilson relate their favorite
holiday stories, and there are recipes and recollections from Alma
Arrington Brown, psychologist Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant, Kwanzaa stamp
designer Synthia Saint James, Joyce Dinkins, Phyllis Yvonne Stickney,
Myrlie Evers-Williams, among the many others represented.
The
First publication of this book was significant both as a culinary event
and as a cultural one, for it was the first volume on African cooking to
appear in this country or anywhere outside of Africa.
The late Bea Sandler was a gifted cook, a restaurant
consultant, a frequent lecturer, and a national food magazine editor for
many years. Ms. Sandler became infatuated with African cooking and inspire
by these delicious and virtually unknown dishes, traveled throughout
Africa collecting recipes and learning about African eating customs and
methods of food preparation.
The author’s findings are here presented –
menus for complete meals form eleven African countries: Senegal, the
Sudan, Mozambique, the Malagasy Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, South
Africa, Morocco, Ghana, and Tanzania. She has devoted a chapter to each
country, telling something about the food and serving customs and offering
suggestions on how an American might present an African meal with some
degree of authenticity.
The chapters are followed by a varied and
interesting collection of African recipes conveniently arranged by
courses. The ingredients are all available in supermarkets and specialty
food stores. This is the first paperback edition of a book that will
enrich any cookbook shelf.
The fragrances, emotions, and tastes of the famous
Tuskegee Institute, founded by former slave Booker T. Washington in 1881
are evoked in the collage of personal vignettes, pictorial accounts,
poetry, and more than 200 traditional recipes. The history and
entertaining information in these pages conjures the spirit of the small
southern town of Tuskegee, Alabama, that for over 100 years has been a
mecca and center of progress and education for African Americans.
Not just a collection of recipes, The African
American Heritage cookbook includes memories and literary passages
intended to honor a notable American landmark. For example, the recipe for
Peanut Cake with Molasses is on of many featured here that was developed
by Washington's protégé, the innovative scientist George Washington
Carver. And this one is prefaced with a story of Washington's childhood as
a slave boy and the unforgettable taste of molasses after Sunday meals on
a plantation in the not-too-distant past.
Beginning with the final days of slavery and
extending through the Victorian Period, the world wars and the struggle
for civil rights, this collection brings alive the pain and pride of
suffering sharecroppers, the aspiring students of Washington's fledgling
school, and the thousands of graduates who have gone forth the change
American and the world.
The down-home
pleasures of soul food no longer have to be off-limits because of excess
fat, cholesterol, sugar, and salt. The New Soul-Food Cookbook
offers a new look at traditional African-American cuisine and provides
contemporary versions of 99 recipes-all with an emphasis on fresh
ingredients and prepared with leaner meats, egg whites, less (or no) oil,
nonfat dairy products, less sodium, and fewer calories.
Here are lighter appetizers, breads, soups, salads, entrées, side
dishes, and desserts: Jalapeno Corn Bread, Black-Eyed Pea Salad, Mixed
Greens, Red Beans and Rice, Smothered Cabbage With Smoked Turkey, Hot and
Spicy String Beans, Lemon Pound Cake, and more. Here, too, are
irresistible comfort foods like Unfried Chicken and Mississippi Mud
Cake-hearty pleasures made less guilty with health-conscious, taste-saving
tips. You can make specific eating choices based on each recipe's
nutritional analysis, and you can get ideas for festive occasions and
family gatherings from the suggested menus.
Now, with this sensible, easy-to-follow cookbook, you will be able
to heed today's guidelines for healthier eating and still enjoy all the
familiar aromas and flavors of soul food-On special days or every day.
In this enticing
sequel to her bestselling book A Taste of Freedom,
Carolyn Quick Tillery celebrates the most mouth-watering
African-American recipes ever invented while also paying homage
to Howard University, the nation’s first historic black
university. Where A Taste of Freedom explored the heroic
black struggle for freedom and education, Celebrating Our
Equality chronicles a newly freed people’s continuing battle
for equality and justice.
Established in
1867 to educate African-Americans freed by the Civil War, Howard
University is credited with being at the forefront of the civil
rights struggle. Nine of the ten attorneys who argued Brown
v. Board of Education, which ended public school
segregation, were either Howard University professors or Law
School graduates. Most noted among the latter group was Thurgood
Marshall, the first African-American to sit on the United States
Supreme Court. Howard University’s list of notable graduates
includes civil rights luminaries Ralph Bunche, Andrew Young,
Vernon Jordan, Stokely Carmichael, James Farmer, and Anna Pauli
Murray, along with Zora Neale Hurston, Debbie Allen, and Nobel
Laureate Toni Morrison. Among its faculty members are blood bank
founder Dr. Charles Drew and Alaine Locke, the first
African-American Rhodes Scholar.
Howard University
has always provided a forum for black Americans to celebrate
their culture—including the unique cooking traditions they have
preserved for countless generations. The tantalizing recipes in
this book illustrate those proud traditions: dishes such as
Black Olive, Jalapeño, and Tomato Mojo; Black-Eyed Pea Salad;
Spicy Fried Chicken; Rosemary and Thyme-Scented Green Beans; and
Buttermilk Pie, to name just a few.
Filled with
intriguing anecdotes, and accompanied by over fifty vintage
photographs and illustrations, Celebrating Our Equality
is at once a powerful tribute to a venerable American
institution and a salute to the accomplishments made by a people
who turned their hard-won freedom into a chance to change the
course of history.
Today more than
ever, Americans are striving to eat smarter—searching for food
that is satisfying, nutritious, low-fat, and of course,
appetizing. In fact, the regimen most doctors now
advice—including fresh vegetables, whole grains, fruits, beans,
and minimal amounts of meat and oil—has been embodied for
centuries in Africa cuisine. Now gastronomes and
health-conscious eaters alike can find everything they’re
looking for in this comprehensive collection of foods, customs,
and myths from all parts of Africa.
In the tradition
of The African Cookbook and South of the Sahara,
Zainabu’s African Cookbook contains delicious,
easy-to-follow recipes, and stories behind the various dishes
that give new insight into African culture. You’ll discover a
sumptuous selection of delectable recipes, from the traditional
to the more exotic, including Mango Chicken and Rice Balls,
Sesame Spinach and Beans, Banana Ginger Akara, and Tipapia in
Kobo Kobo Groundnut Sauce, as well as substitutions for some
harder-to-find ingredients.
A feast for the
eyes and the palate Zainabu’s African Cookbook will help
you expand your culinary horizons with a fun, sensible, and
delicious way of cooking that will lead you to eat—and
live—better than ever.
