Black Cookstove

Born and raised in Colombia’s coastal region, Germán Patiño Ossa was a newspaper columnist, novelist, university professor, and cultural activist. Along with Fogón de negros, Patiño Ossa was the author of the prizewinning Herr Simmonds y otras historias del Valle del Cauca. Jonathan Tittler is Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Rutgers University. He has translated nine Spanish American novels, including Manuel Zapata Olivella's Changó, the Biggest Badass, which was awarded honorable mention for the best translation of a literary work by the MLA in 2011.

• IllustrationsTranslator’s ForewordTranslator’s NotePresentationAuthor’s ForewordMaps of “Cauca Country” in Southwest ColombiaAuthor’s Preface for North American Readers Preamble: Tale of a Voyage1.Introduction2.Then Came Pigs and Cattle3.Things from Hither and Yon4.Maria5.Cooking and the Division of Labor6.Sweets and Sexuality7.Cooking, Geography, and Region8.Food, Hunting, and Society9.Traditional Cooking and HungerEpilogue: Cooking and CultureNotes to Black Cook Stove BibliographyGlossaryIndex

“A highly original and fascinating book. Black Cookstove engages with a vast repertory of interdisciplinary studies: literary, historical, anthropological, botanical, and cultural-studies works on cuisine, culture, and food consumption in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Germán Patiño Ossa’s work is part of a larger project—a history of the culture of Colombian society that reevaluates the presence and relevance of African descendants as cultural agents.”—María Antonia Garcés, author of Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive’s Tale