Meals, Music, and Muses
Recipes From My African American Kitchen
This list offers fiction and non-fiction reading recommendations from the Oakland Public Library’s collection as of November 2025. While not everyone observes Thanksgiving, the selections encourage reflection on the holiday’s complex history and its food-related traditions. Compiled by a neutral librarian, the list serves as a resource for thoughtful consideration. The author being an immigrant remembers his first Thanksgiving in "multicultural" Los Angeles with the rest of the "misfit" foreign students who had nowhere to go but to gather together and cook together delicious and exotic for him meals from Mexico, China, Korea, Japan, Peru and other countries.


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Recipes From My African American Kitchen
a New Look at Thanksgiving
A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History
An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples
Recipes for a Holiday Meal
Recipes and Inspiration for a Festive Holiday Meal
the Pilgrims & the Myth of the First Thanksgiving
Festive Plant-based Meals and Desserts for the Thanksgiving and Christmas Table
Stories of Thanksgiving From Then to Now
Essays
a Nation at War, a President in Turmoil, and One American's Campaign to Return Us All to a State of Grace
Daily Devotionals for Thanksgiving Based on the Hymn, "We Gather Together."
a Lucy Stone Mystery
the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
Embodying the Ballad of "Betsy and I Are Out" and Other Poems
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