The Sweet Home Cafe is the restaurant at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), it celebrates African American cuisine and cooking. The book includes recipes from the restaurant, along with traditional recipes from around the country. Sidebars are interspersed throughout the book, high-lighting ingredients, historic photographs and artifacts from the museums’ collection. It’s a guided tour through African American culinary history and its lasting influence on food today.
Nominated for a 2019 James Beard Cookbook Award
Art direction and design for Smithsonian Books.