Vibration Cooking

{{Short description|Book by Vertamae Grosvenor}}

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| name = Vibration Cooking: Or, the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl

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| author = Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

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| subject = Soul food
Gullah culture

| genre = Cookbook

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| published = 1970 (Doubleday)

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Vibration Cooking: Or, the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl is the 1970 debut book by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor and combines recipes with storytelling.Edgar (2006), p. 410. It was published by Doubleday.{{Cite news|work=The Island Packet|title=Lowcountry Gives the World New Flavor through Vertamae Grosvenor|author=Lauderdale, David|date=October 12, 2013|url=http://www.islandpacket.com/2013/10/12/2735227_lowcountry-gives-the-world-new.html?rh=1|access-date=March 21, 2015}} A second edition was published in 1986,Witt (2001), p. 227. and a third edition was published in 1992.{{Cite magazine|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|title=Vibration Cooking or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl|author=Fretz, Sada|date=April 17, 1992|url=http://www.ew.com/article/1992/04/17/vibration-cooking-or-travel-notes-geechee-girl|access-date=March 21, 2015}} The University of Georgia published another edition in 2011.{{Cite news|work=Charleston City Paper|title=The Southern Foodways Alliance Shares the Stories of the South at the Potlikker Film Festival|author=Allen, Jeff|date=March 1, 2011|url=http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/the-southern-foodways-alliance-shares-the-stories-of-the-south-at-the-potlikker-film-festival/Content?oid=3151801|access-date=March 21, 2015}} Smart-Grosvenor went on to publish more cookbooks after Vibration Cooking.{{Cite news|work=The Island Packet|title=Artist Jonathan Green Stirs Up New Look at Lowcountry's Rice Past|author=Lauderdale, David|date=September 12, 2013|url=http://www.islandpacket.com/2013/09/12/2680841_artist-jonathan-green-stirs-up.html?rh=1|access-date=March 21, 2015}} Vibration Cooking raised awareness about Gullah culture.{{Cite news|work=Charleston City Paper|title=Twenty Years Later, Julie Dash's Film Daughters of the Dust Continues to Inspire: A Gullah Story|author=Cohen, Susan|url=http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/twenty-years-later-julie-dashs-film-daughters-of-the-dust-continues-to-inspire/Content?oid=3582660|access-date=March 21, 2015}}

Scholar Anne E. Goldman compared Vibration Cooking with Jessica Harris' Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons, arguing that, in both books, "the model of the self... is historicized by being developed in the context of colonialism."Goldman (1996), p. 44. Lewis V. Baldwin recommended Vibration Cooking for its "interesting and brilliant insights on the social significance of food and eating and their relationship to 'place' in a southern context."Baldwin (1991), p. 35. The book inspired filmmaker Julie Dash to make the film Daughters of the Dust, which won awards at the Sundance Film Festival.{{Cite news|work=The Post and Courier|title=Filmmaker Julie Dash to Make Documentary of Culinary Griot Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor|author=Parker, Adam|date=November 1, 2014|url=http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20141101/PC1201/141109969|access-date=March 21, 2015}}