Code Noir: Afro-Caribbean Stories and Recipes (Lelani Lewis) Laos Meacham finds that the distillation

Meacham finds that the distillation and brewing of alcohol for these purposes traditionally fell to women

chocolate caramel cake

from the Far East

SIGNED on the cover by Richard Olney

As a long-time resident of Abu Dhabi

Code Noir: Afro-Caribbean Stories and Recipes (Lelani Lewis) Laos Meacham finds that the distillationCode Noir is a cookbook steeped in history. Not just because of the title, which hits on a seventeenth century decree in which King Louis XIV recorded how enslaved Africans in the French colonies were to be treated, but also because it deals with the food and the people that, through the gruesome course of history, came together in the Caribbean. Inside, chef and culinary activist Lelani Lewis goes back to her Caribbean roots with classics like jerk