Someone's In the Kitchen with "Dinah"

A Kentucky Humanities Council Speaker's Bureau presentation.  "Encouraged by the recent popularity of both the novel and the film The Help, in this revived talk inspired by John Fox Jr.'s account of "his" Aunt Dinah, whose divine cooking could "shatter the fast of the pope", Harris revisits his exploration of the contributions of African-American women to the traditions of Southern culinary excellence.  He surveys the legacy and subsequent empowerment of "those turbaned mistresses of the Southern kitchen".