Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the 2011 Edition -- The Demystification of Food -- HOME -- Birth, Hunting and Gator Tails -- The Smarts, the Ritters and Chief Kuku Koukoui -- Philadelphia, Mrs. Greenstein and Terrapins -- First Cousins and the Numbers -- AWAY FROM HOME -- '59 -- '68 -- MADNESS -- Forty Acres and a Jeep -- Name-calling -- Hospitals Ain't No Play Pretty -- Taxis and Poor Man's Mace -- Work -- LOVE -- I Love Dinner Parties -- ... My Friends -- ... African Clothes -- ... Bon Voyage Parties -- MIXED BAG -- Collards and Other Greens -- Poultices and Home Remedies -- Spices -- Aphrodisiacal Foods -- Cocktails and Other Beverages -- White Folks and Fried Chicken -- The Jet Set and Beautiful People -- SOME LETTERS TO AND FROM STELLA AND ONE TO BOB THOMPSON -- TO BE CONTINUED -- The Kitchen -- A Poem -- Appendix 1: Introduction to the 1986 Edition -- Appendix 2: Introduction to the 1992 Edition -- Index of Recipes -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- L -- M -- N -- P -- S -- V.