''Vibration Cooking: Or, the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl'' is the 1970 debut book by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor and combines recipes with storytelling. It was published by Doubleday. A second edition was published in 1986, and a third edition was published in 1992. The

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

published another edition in 2011. Smart-Grosvenor went on to publish more cookbooks after ''Vibration Cooking''. ''Vibration Cooking'' raised awareness about

Gullah The Gullah () are an African American ethnic group who predominantly live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, within the coastal plain and the Sea Islands. Their language and cultu ...

culture. 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." 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." The book inspired filmmaker

Julie Dash Julie Ethel Dash (born October 22, 1952) is an American film director, writer and producer. Dash received her MFA in 1985 at the UCLA Film School and is one of the graduates and filmmakers known as the L.A. Rebellion. The L.A. Rebellion refers ...

to make the film ''

Daughters of the Dust ''Daughters of the Dust'' is a 1991 independent film written, directed and produced by Julie Dash and is the first feature film directed by an African-American woman distributed theatrically in the United States.Michel, Martin (November 20, 2016)" ...

'', which won awards at the Sundance Film Festival.

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