“We’re so different,” she says, “but we all have this connection of cooking together, talking trash, and eating.
Bingham describes the importance of food in bringing people together in an interview with Publisher’s Weekly.
Readers get to experience a young boy learning from his grandma how to cook all the family favorites. Soul Food Sunday came from her own family experiences around meals and family gatherings. Her debut picture book Soul Food Sunday (Abrams) sold at auction and was selected as one of the New York Times’ best children’s books of 2021 and received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist. We’ll start with our morning Keynote speaker and breakout session faculty, Winsome Bingham.īingham is an acquisitions editor at Reycraft Books as well as an acclaimed author. The repeated refrains in the text would make this a fun read-aloud.Ĭons: The text’s font is kind of small and sometimes is hard to see against the intense colors of the illustrations.Welcome to our series of blog posts spotlighting faculty at our 2023 Spring Mingle Conference. Pros: A heartwarming story of food and family, with brilliantly colored illustrations that will get your mouth watering. Once again, Granny declares it the best of her life, adding “unless sweet tea is on the table, it’s not Soul Food Sunday.” Includes notes from the author and illustrator and a mac ‘n’ cheese recipe. While the food is being carried to the table, the boy remembers one thing they forgot, and works by himself to mix up a pitcher of iced tea.
Macaroni and cheese, greens, grilled meats: for each one she offers this refrain, “Unless is on the table, it’s not Soul Food Sunday.” After he follows her instructions, she tells him each dish is the best she’s seen in all her life. Summary: When a family gathers for Sunday dinner, the narrator heads out to the kitchen for cooking lessons from Granny.
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