{"product_id":"one-pot-true-stories-from-jamaica-canada-recipes-poems-paperback","title":"One Pot: True Stories from Jamaica \u0026 Canada, Recipes, Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTania Hernandez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"On first meeting, you may not suspect that Tania Hernandez is a bawn Jamaican. A mix of various ethnicities, she embodies the Jamaican motto 'Out of many, one people.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut if her appearance doesn't immediately signal her Jamaicaness, there can be no doubt when the flavour and colour of the island dialect rolls off her tongue. At her performances, where she channels the spirit of the late Jamaican folklorist Louise Bennett-Coverley (Miss Lou), Tania has audiences mesmerized. Through poems, riddles, stories, and songs, she weaves the textured, poetic, and complex tale of the Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne Pot\u003c\/em\u003e delivers the same exuberant storytelling and poetry. Blended with recipes that marry traditional Jamaican and worldly cuisine, it mek yuh belly bus' with good food and lively tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pages are perfectly seasoned with catchy phrases and cultural witticisms told in the inimitable language and style of Miss Tania Lou (stage name).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDis book noice, yuh see!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Grace Cameron, editor and publisher \u003cem\u003eJamaicanEats\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, www.jamaicaneats.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTania Hernandez, lovingly known as Miss Tania Lou, is a Jamaican-born Canadian who has been performing cultural songs, stories, poems, and skits for over 20 years in Canada, at schools and private functions. She has delighted crowds at the Heritage Singers 40th Anniversary Celebration at the Toronto Centre for the Arts; at \"Miss Lou's Room\" at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto--a space dedicated to Jamaica's cultural icon, the Hon. Dr. Louise Bennett-Coverley; at the farewell ceremony for Jamaican High Commissioner to Ottawa, Her Excellency Janice Miller; and for the Consul General to Toronto, Mr. Lloyd Wilks. In 2019 she performed at \"This is Your Festival\" in Gage Park, one of Ontario's largest festivals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf herself, Tania says, \"I provide nostalgia of the good ol' days when there was no TV, or just a black-and-white television. Many people would tell Anancy and other stories in their yard, listen to \"Dulcimina,\" Ranny, and Miss Lou's show on the radio, watch \"Ring Ding,\" go to pantomimes--maintaining a rich, vibrant Jamaican-Caribbean-African heritage whilst they \"buss dem belly wid laugh.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTania is a wife, mother, grandmother, mentor, special education teacher, and recording artist who loves reading, jog-walking, sight-seeing, and cooking. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.13 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51785252143392,"sku":"9781460013076","price":34.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b496c9faf66876a2725b7cb423d954fb.webp?v=1780613697","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/one-pot-true-stories-from-jamaica-canada-recipes-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}