Vertamae Grosvenor is a food writer and broadcaster, raised in the South Carolina lowcountry. She is the author of Vibration Cooking, also known as The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl. The cookbook was originally published in 1970, and focused on lowcountry cooking, also known as Geechee or Gullah cooking. Its focus on spontaneity in the kitchen—cooking by "vibration," rather than precisely measuring ingredients, as well as "making do" with ingredients on hand, captured the essence of traditional African American techniques. The hearty, simple, healthful, basic ingredients of lowcountry cuisine, like shrimp, oysters, crab, fresh produce, rice and sweet potatoes, made it a bestseller. The first edition is now a classic cookbook collector's must-have. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... annually. ... The South Carolina Low Country is a term used to describe the states coastal counties, generally south of Charleston. ... Lowcountry cuisine is the cooking traditionally associated with the coastal plains of South Carolina and Georgia--the Lowcountry. ... Gullah is the name of both an ethnic group and its English-African creole language. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Superfamilies Alpheoidea Atyoidea Bresilioidea Campylonotoidea Crangonoidea Galatheacaridoidea Nematocarcinoidea Oplophoroidea Palaemonoidea Pandaloidea Pasiphaeoidea Procaridoidea Processoidea Psalidopodoidea Stylodactyloidea True shrimp are small, swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. ... The name oyster is used for a number of different groups of mollusks which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water. ... Superfamilies Dromiacea Homolodromioidea Dromioidea Homoloidea Eubrachyura Raninoidea Cyclodorippoidea Dorippoidea Calappoidea Leucosioidea Majoidea Hymenosomatoidea Parthenopoidea Retroplumoidea Cancroidea Portunoidea Bythograeoidea Xanthoidea Bellioidea Potamoidea Pseudothelphusoidea Gecarcinucoidea Cryptochiroidea Pinnotheroidea * Ocypodoidea * Grapsoidea * An asterisk (*) marks the crabs included in the clade Thoracotremata. ... Species Oryza glaberrima Oryza sativa Rice is two species (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima) of grass, native to tropical and subtropical southern & southeastern Asia and to Africa, which together provide more than one fifth of the calories consumed by humans[1]. (The term wild rice can refer to wild species... Binomial name Ipomoea batatas Linnaeus, The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a crop plant whose large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are an important root vegetable. ...

Broadcasting

Grosvenor has been a long-time contributer to Public broadcasting. She is a regular contributer to NPR's Cultural Desk. She is also the host of Seasonings, a series of holiday specials on food and culture. From 1988 to 1995 she was the host of NPR's documentary series Horizons. In 1990 she won a du-Pont-Columbia Award for "AIDS and Black America: Breaking the Silence". In 1992 the National Assoication of Black Journalists awarded for her segment, "South Africa and the African-American Experience". Public broadcasting is a form of public service broadcasting (PSB) intended to serve the diverse needs of the listening public. ... NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ...

Writing

In addition to Vibration Cooking, Grosvernr is author of "Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap". She has been contributing editor to Elan Magazine and Essence Magazine and has written for the Village Voice, the The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Essence Magazine is an American fashion and lifestyle magazine. ... The Village Voice is a New York City-based weekly newspaper featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. ...

See also

• Lowcountry cuisine
• Cuisine of the Southern United States
• Hoppin' John

Lowcountry cuisine is the cooking traditionally associated with the coastal plains of South Carolina and Georgia--the Lowcountry. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... In much of the American South, eating Hoppin John on New Years Day is thought to bring a year filled with luck. ...

Publications

• Grosvenor, Vertamae. Vibration Cooking: The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl. Ballantine Books, 1992. ISBN 0-345-37667-6.
• Grosvenor, Vertamae. Vertamae Cooks Cooks in America's Family Kitchen. KQED Books, 1996. 0-91233388X.
• Grosvenor, Vertamae. Vertamae Cooks Again. Bay Books, 1999. ISBN 0-9123391X.
• Grosvenor, Vertamae. Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap.

References

• NPR Biography
• Southern Foodways Alliance