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2022 selection · Nonfiction
Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island by Emily Meggett appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, identity & culture, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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